Paul Krugman
Nobel-winning trade economist at CUNY; New York Times columnist 2000–2024, now a daily Substack newsletter.
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- Paul Krugman is an American economist who won the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, alone, for his work on international trade and economic geography.
- He taught at MIT and Princeton and moved to the City University of New York's Graduate Center in 2015.
- He wrote an opinion column for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024, and after leaving in December 2024 began a daily newsletter on Substack, edited by his wife, the economist Robin Wells.
Key facts
- Born
- 28 February 1953, Albany, New York1
- Studied
- BA in economics, Yale, 1974; PhD in economics, MIT, 19771
- Professor
- MIT 1980–2000, Princeton 2000–2015, then the CUNY Graduate Center from 20152
- Nobel Prize
- Economic Sciences, 2008, sole winner, for new trade theory and new economic geography1
- John Bates Clark Medal
- 19911
- The New York Times
- Opinion columnist from 2000 to 2024; left in December 20242
- Newsletter
- Daily Substack newsletter after leaving the Times, mostly free, edited by Robin Wells1
- Books
- The Conscience of a Liberal (2007); economics textbooks with Robin Wells1
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