Paul Krugman

**Paul Robin Krugman** (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist and 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.

## Early life

Krugman was born in Albany, New York.

He was awarded B.A. in economics from Yale University in 1974.
He earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1977.

## Career

From 1982 to 1983, he spent a year working at the Reagan White House as a staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Krugman taught at Yale, MIT, University of California, and Stanford University. He is still teaching at the City University of New York, the London School of Economics, and Princeton University. He is also a columnist for _The New York Times_.

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Krugman in 2008.

## Selected works

In a summary based on writings by and about Santayana, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 470+ works in 1,500+ publications in 24 languages and 44,600+ library holdings.
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### Academic books (authored or coauthored)

- _The Spatial Economy – Cities, Regions and International Trade_ (July 1999), with Masahisa Fujita and Anthony Venables. MIT Press,
- _The Self Organizing Economy_ (February 1996),
- _EMU and the Regions_ (December 1995), with Guillermo de la Dehesa.
- _Development, Geography, and Economic Theory (Ohlin Lectures)_ (September 1995),
- _Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (3rd Edition)_ (February 1995), with Edward M. Graham.
- _World Savings Shortage_ (September 1994),
- _What Do We Need to Know About the International Monetary System? (Essays in International Finance, No 190 July 1993)_
- _Currencies and Crises_ (June 1992),
- _Geography and Trade (Gaston Eyskens Lecture Series)_ (August 1991),
- _The Risks Facing the World Economy_ (July 1991), with Guillermo de la Dehesa and Charles Taylor.
- _Has the Adjustment Process Worked? (Policy Analyses in International Economics, 34)_ (June 1991),
- _Rethinking International Trade_ (April 1990),
- _Trade Policy and Market Structure_ (March 1989), with Elhanan Helpman.
- _Exchange-Rate Instability (Lionel Robbins Lectures)_ (November 1988),
- _Adjustment in the World Economy_ (August 1987)
- _Market Structure and Foreign Trade: Increasing Returns, Imperfect Competition, and the International Economy_ (May 1985), with Elhanan Helpman.

### Academic books (edited or coedited)

- _Currency Crises (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)_ (September 2000),
- _Trade with Japan : Has the Door Opened Wider? (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)_ (March 1995),
- _Empirical Studies of Strategic Trade Policy (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)_ (April 1994), co-edited with Alasdair Smith.
- _Exchange Rate Targets and Currency Bands_ (October 1991), co-edited with Marcus Miller.
- _Strategic Trade Policy and the New International Economics_ (January 1986),

### Economics textbooks

- _Economics: European Edition_ (Spring 2007), with Robin Wells and Kathryn Graddy.
- _Macroeconomics_ (February 2006), with Robin Wells.
- _Economics_ , first edition (December 2005), with Robin Wells.
- _Economics_, second edition (2009), with Robin Wells.
- _Microeconomics_ (March 2004), with Robin Wells.
- _International Economics: Theory and Policy_, with Maurice Obstfeld. 7th Edition (2006), ; 1st Edition (1998),