Paul Krugman
American economist (born 1953) · United States · Academics
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Something wrong?Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024.
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Paul Krugman, Roger Tsien, Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Masukawa, Nobel Prize Laureates 2008, at a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm
Krugman giving a lecture at the German National Library in Frankfurt in 2008
Graph illustrating Krugman's 'core-periphery' model. The horizontal axis represents costs of trade, while the vertical axis represents the share of either region in manufacturing. Solid lines denote stable equilibria, dashed lines denote unstable equilibria.
President George W. Bush poses for a photo with Nobel Prize winners Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, in the Oval Office. Joining President Bush from left are, Dr. Paul Krugman, Economics Prize Laureate; Dr. Martin Chalfie, Chemistry Prize Laureate; and Dr. Roger Tsien, Chemistry Prize Laureate.
Krugman at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
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, Because the Trump team insisted that a roaring recovery was coming, and refused to notice that it wasn’t happening, we’ve now stumbled into a completely gratuitous economic crisis.
Republicans Add Insult to Illness
The way to deal with China would have been a broad coalition of countries that play by the rules. Instead, we've conveyed the message that big countries don't need no rules.
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Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024. In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography. The Prize Committee cited Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic distribution of economic activity, by examining the effects of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services.
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Milton FriedmanBoth received Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Joseph StiglitzBoth received H. C. Recktenwald Prize in Economics
John Forbes Nash Jr.Both received Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Paul SamuelsonBoth received John Bates Clark Medal
Oliver E. WilliamsonBoth received H. C. Recktenwald Prize in Economics
Friedrich HayekBoth received Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred NobelFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.