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Paul Krugman
Nationality	United States
Academic career
Field	Macroeconomics
Institution	Princeton University
School or tradition	New Keynesian economics
Alma mater	MIT (Ph.D.) Yale University (B.A.)
Influences	John Maynard Keynes Jagdish Bhagwati
Contributions	International Trade Theory New Trade Theory
Awards	John Bates Clark Medal (1991) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2008)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Paul Robin Krugman (Template:Pron-en) (born February 28, 1953) is an American liberal economist, public intellectual, columnist, and author. In 2008, Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity." He is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, a centenary professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times.

Krugman is known in academia for his work in international economics, including trade theory, economic geography, and international finance. As of 2006, Krugman had written or edited in excess of 25 books, over 40 scholarly articles and 750 columns at The New York Times dealing with current economic and political issues. Ideologically, Krugman is a European Social Democrat.

Biography

Krugman, the son of David and Anita Krugman, is the grandson of Jewish immigrants from Brest-Litovsk and grew up on Long Island in New York. He graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore. He is married to Robin Wells, his second wife, an academic economist who has collaborated on textbooks with Krugman. They have no children.

Krugman says that his interest in economics began with Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels, in which the social scientists of the future use "psychohistory" to attempt to save civilization. Since "psychohistory" in Asimov's sense of the word does not exist, Krugman turned to economics, which he considered the next best thing.

Academic career

Krugman earned his B.A. in economics from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1977. From 1982 to 1983, he spent a year working at the Reagan White House as a staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He taught at Yale University, MIT, UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and Stanford University before joining Princeton University in 2000 as professor of economics and international affairs. He is also currently a centenary professor at the London School of Economics, and a member of the Group of Thirty international economic body as well as the Council on Foreign Relations.

When Bill Clinton came into office in 1993, he considered Krugman for a leading post and Krugman was flown out for a meeting in Arkansas. Krugman's outspokenness was reported to be "the main reason the Clinton administration didn't offer him a job." Krugman said later that he would not have been interested in that type of position and that, "I'm temperamentally unsuited for that kind of role. You have to be very good at people skills, biting your tongue when people say silly things."

International trade theory

Paul Krugman has done extensive work in international economics, including work on international trade, economic geography, and international finance. According to the Research Papers in Economics project, he is among the 50 most influential economists in the world today. Krugman's International Economics: Theory and Policy, co-authored with Maurice Obstfeld is a standard introductory textbook on international economics. He also writes on economic topics for the general public, sometimes on international economic topics but also on income distribution and public policy.

The Nobel Prize Committee stated that Krugman's main contribution is to analyze the impact of economies of scale in international trade. Prior to Krugman's work, trade theory (see David Ricardo and Hecksher-Ohlin model) emphasized trade based on the comparative advantage of countries with very different characteristics, such as a poor country exporting agricultural goods to a rich country in exchange for industrial products. However, in the 20th century, an ever larger share of trade occurred between countries with very similar characteristics, which is difficult to explain by comparative advantage. The Nobel committee, for example, mentions Sweden exporting Volvo cars to Germany while Germany exports BMW cars to Sweden.

Krugman's explanation of trade between similar countries was proposed in a 1979 paper in the Journal of International Economics. He assumes that consumers prefer a diverse choice of brands, and that production favors economies of scale. Consumers' preference for diversity explains the survival of different versions of cars like Volvo and BMW. But because of economies of scale, it is not profitable to spread the production of Volvos all over the world; instead, it is concentrated in a few factories and therefore in a few countries (or maybe just one). This logic explains how each country may specialize in producing a few brands of any given type of product, instead of specializing in different types of products.

Most models of international trade now follow Krugman's lead, incorporating economies of scale in production and a preference for diversity in consumption. This way of modeling trade has come to be called New Trade Theory.

When there are economies of scale in production, it is possible that countries may become 'locked in' to disadvantageous patterns of trade. Nonetheless, trade remains beneficial in general, even between relatively similar countries, because it permits firms to save on costs by producing at a larger, more efficient scale, and because it increases the range of brands available and sharpens the competition between firms.

On a lighter note, in 1978, Krugman wrote The Theory of Interstellar Trade, a tongue-in-cheek essay on computing interest rates on goods in transit near the speed of light. He says he wrote it to cheer himself up when he was "an oppressed assistant professor".

Economic geography

If trade is largely shaped by economies of scale, as Krugman's trade theory argues, then those economic regions with most production will be more profitable and will therefore attract even more production. That is, Krugman's trade theory implies that instead of spreading out evenly around the world, production will tend to concentrate in a few countries, regions, or cities, which will become densely populated but also have higher levels of income. This forms the basis of Krugman's theory of economic geography, which he began to develop in a 1991 paper in the Journal of Political Economy.

International finance

In addition to his work on international trade, Krugman has also been influential in the field of international finance economics. In 1979 he published a model of currency crises in the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking showing that fixed exchange rate regimes are unlikely to end smoothly: instead, they end in a sudden speculative attack. Krugman's paper is considered one of the main contributions to the 'first generation' of currency crisis models.

Nobel Memorial Prize

Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the sole awardee for 2008, for his work associated with New Trade Theory. In the words of the prize committee, "By having integrated economies of scale into explicit general equilibrium models, Paul Krugman has deepened our understanding of the determinants of trade and the location of economic activity."

Author and journalist

Krugman wrote for Fortune and Slate, and then for The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, The Economist, Harper's, and Washington Monthly. Krugman said, "I would have to write essays for non-economists that were clear, effective, and entertaining" in order to counter what he described as "Pop Internationalism".

Since January 2000, Krugman has contributed a twice-weekly column to the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, which has made him, in the words of the Washington Monthly, "the most important political columnist in America... he is almost alone in analyzing the most important story in politics in recent years — the seamless melding of corporate, class, and political party interests at which the Bush administration excels."

According to The Economist, in 2003 Krugman was ranked as the second most partisan American political columnist, behind only Ann Coulter. The Economist concluded that Krugman gives lay readers the illusion that his personal political beliefs can somehow be derived empirically from economic theory.

In September, 2003, Krugman published a collection of his columns under the title, The Great Unraveling. Taken as a whole, it was a scathing attack on the Bush's administration's economic and foreign policies. His main argument was that the large deficits generated by the Bush administration—generated by decreasing taxes, increasing public spending, and fighting a war in Iraq — were in the long run unsustainable, and would eventually generate a major economic crisis. The book was a best-seller.

In 2007, Krugman published The Conscience of a Liberal, a book detailing the history of wealth and income gaps in the United States in the 20th century, and started a blog of the same name. The book describes how the gap between rich and poor declined greatly in middle of the century, and then widened in the last two decades to levels higher even than in the 1920s. Most economists (including Krugman) have regarded the late-20th century divergence as resulting largely from changes in technology and trade, but Krugman writes that government policies played a much greater role than commonly thought, both in reducing the gap in the 1930s through 1970s and in widening it in the 1980s through the present. He rebuked the Bush administration for implementing policies that greatly widened the gap between the rich and poor. Krugman proposed a "new New Deal", which included placing more emphasis on social and medical programs and less on national defense. The book was praised in The New York Review of Books.

Economist Daniel B. Klein published during 2008 a paper in Econ Journal Watch (of which he is the chief editor) that reviews and criticizes Krugman's columns for the New York Times. Klein contends that Krugman's "social-democratic impetus sometimes trumps people's interests, notably poor people's interests... Krugman has almost never come out against extant government interventions, even ones that expert economists seem to agree are bad, and especially so for the poor." Economist William L. Anderson has argued that Krugman's economic views are politically partisan and consistently promote a socialist agenda. Donald Luskin of the National Review is another frequent critic of Krugman. He has argued that that "Krugman’s liberal agenda always takes precedence over economic principle."

Daniel Okrent, a former New York Times ombudsman, criticized Paul Krugman for "the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults." Okrent has also said that "when someone challenged Krugman on the facts, he tended to question the motivation and ignore the substance."

Income distribution

In the 1990s, Krugman increasingly focused on writing books for a general audience on issues he considered important for public policy. In The Age of Diminished Expectations and The Conscience of a Liberal, he wrote in particular about the increasing US income inequality in the "New Economy" of the 1990s. He attributes the rise in income inequality in part to changes in technology, but principally to a change in political atmosphere which has been widely manipulated by Movement Conservatives.

East Asian growth

In a 1994 Foreign Affairs article, Paul Krugman argued that the idea of an "Asian economic miracle" was a myth. His article helped popularize the argument made by Laurence Lau and Alwyn Young, among others, that the growth of economies in East Asia was not the result of new and original economic models, but rather from high capital investment and increasing labor force participation, and that total factor productivity had not increased. Krugman argued that in the long term, only increasing total factor productivity can lead to sustained economic growth. His article was highly controversial when it first appeared, and subsequent studies disputed some of Krugman's conclusions, however, his analysis may have stimulated Singapore to provide incentives for technological progress.

During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Krugman advocated currency controls as a way to mitigate the crisis, saying "never in the course of economic events – not even in the early years of the Great Depression – has so large a part of the world economy experienced so devastating a fall from grace." Krugman later stated that his article advocating currency controls was ill-judged. Malaysia was the only country that adopted currency controls, and although it recovered relatively quickly, its recovery may or may not have been related to the currency controls. Korea and Thailand, two countries that did not restrict currency flows, recovered even more quickly than Malaysia. All countries rebounded from the crisis within two years.

Political views

Krugman describes himself as liberal. His choice of the book title "The Conscience of a Liberal" is a play on Barry Goldwater's "Conscience of a Conservative". Krugman has explained that he views the term "liberal" in the American context to mean "more or less what social democratic means in Europe".

Krugman has been a prominent critic of the Obama administration's economic policies, in particular its efforts to prop up the US financial system, which he considers unsustainable in its present form.

Awards

• 1991, American Economic Association, John Bates Clark Medal. Since it was awarded to only one person, once every two years (prior to 2009), The Economist has described the Clark Medal as 'slightly harder to get than a Nobel prize'.
• 1995, Adam Smith Award of the National Association for Business Economics
• 2000, H.C. Recktenwald Prize in Economics, awarded by University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.
• 2002, Editor and Publisher, Columnist of the Year.
• 2004, Fundación Príncipe de Asturias (Spain), Prince of Asturias Awards in Social Sciences.
• 2004, Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa, Haverford College
• 2008, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, formally The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - for his contributions to New Trade Theory. He became the twelfth John Bates Clark Medal winner to be awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize.

Published works

Academic books (authored or coauthored)

• The Spatial Economy - Cities, Regions and International Trade (July 1999), with Masahisa Fujita and Anthony Venables. MIT Press, ISBN 0262062046
• The Self Organizing Economy (February 1996), ISBN 1557866988
• EMU and the Regions (December 1995), with Guillermo de la Dehesa. ISBN 1567080383
• Development, Geography, and Economic Theory (Ohlin Lectures) (September 1995), ISBN 0262112035
• Foreign Direct Investment in the United States (3rd Edition) (February 1995), with Edward M. Graham. ISBN 0881322040
• World Savings Shortage (September 1994), ISBN 0881321613
• What Do We Need to Know About the International Monetary System? (Essays in International Finance, No 190 July 1993) ISBN 0881650978
• Currencies and Crises (June 1992), ISBN 0262111659
• Geography and Trade (Gaston Eyskens Lecture Series) (August 1991), ISBN 0262111594
• The Risks Facing the World Economy (July 1991), with Guillermo de la Dehesa and Charles Taylor. ISBN 1567080731
• Has the Adjustment Process Worked? (Policy Analyses in International Economics, 34) (June 1991), ISBN 0881321168
• Rethinking International Trade (April 1990), ISBN 0262111489
• Trade Policy and Market Structure (March 1989), with Elhanan Helpman. ISBN 0262081822
• Exchange-Rate Instability (Lionel Robbins Lectures) (November 1988), ISBN 0262111403
• Adjustment in the World Economy (August 1987) ISBN 1567080235
• Market Structure and Foreign Trade: Increasing Returns, Imperfect Competition, and the International Economy (May 1985), with Elhanan Helpman. ISBN 0262081504

Academic books (edited or coedited)

• Currency Crises (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) (September 2000), ISBN 0226454622
• Trade with Japan : Has the Door Opened Wider? (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report) (March 1995), ISBN 0226454592
• Empirical Studies of Strategic Trade Policy (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report) (April, 1994), co-edited with Alasdair Smith. ISBN 0226454606
• Exchange Rate Targets and Currency Bands (October 1991), co-edited with Marcus Miller. ISBN 0521415330
• Strategic Trade Policy and the New International Economics (January 1986), ISBN 0262111128

Economics textbooks

• Economics: European Edition (Spring 2007), with Robin Wells and Kathryn Graddy. ISBN 0716799561
• Macroeconomics (February 2006), with Robin Wells. ISBN 0716767635
• Economics (December 2005), with Robin Wells. ISBN 1572591501
• Microeconomics (March 2004), with Robin Wells. ISBN 0716759977
• International Economics: Theory and Policy, with Maurice Obstfeld. 7th Edition (2006), ISBN 0321293835; 1st Edition (1998), ISBN 0673521869

Books for a general audience

• The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (December 2008) ISBN 0393071014
• The Conscience of a Liberal (October 2007) ISBN 0393060691
• The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century (September 2003) ISBN 0393058506
  • A book of his New York Times columns, many deal with the economic policies of the Bush administration or the economy in general.
• Fuzzy Math: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan (May 4, 2001) ISBN 0393050629
• The Return of Depression Economics (May 1999) ISBN 039304839X
  • Considers the long economic stagnation of Japan through the 1990s, the Asian financial crisis, and problems in Latin America.
  • The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (December 2008) ISBN 0393071014
• The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science (May 1998) ISBN 0393046389
  • Essay collection, primarily from Krugman's writing for Slate.
• Pop Internationalism (March 1996) ISBN 0262112108
  • Essay collection, covering largely the same ground as Peddling Prosperity.
• Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations (April 1995) ISBN 0393312925
  • History of economic thought from the first rumblings of revolt against Keynesian economics to the present, for the layman.
• The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s (1990) ISBN 026211156X
  • A "briefing book" on the major policy issues around the economy.
  • Revised and Updated, January 1994, ISBN 0262610922
  • Third Edition, August 1997, ISBN 0262112248

Selected academic articles

• (1996) 'Are currency crises self-fulfilling?' NBER Macroeconomics Annual 11, pp. 345–78.
• (1991) 'Increasing returns and economic geography'. Journal of Political Economy 99, pp. 483–99.
• (1991) 'Target zones and exchange rate dynamics'. Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (3), pp. 669–82.
• (1991) 'History versus expectations'. Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 (2), pp. 651–67.
• (1981) 'Intra-industry specialization and the gains from trade'. Journal of Political Economy 89, pp. 959–73.
• (1980) 'Scale economies, product differentiation, and the pattern of trade'. American Economic Review 70, pp. 950–59.
• (1979) 'A model of balance-of-payments crises'. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 11, pp. 311–25.
• (1979) 'Increasing returns, monopolistic competition, and international trade'. Journal of International Economics 9, pp. 469–79.

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External links

• Paul Krugman's Incidents From My Career page
• Biography of Paul Krugman, Princeton Weekly Bulletin, Vol. 98, 2008.

Informational

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• New York Times Paul Krugman index of columns
• Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal Blog
• KrugmanOnline.com features books by Paul Krugman, a custom search engine, and aggregated content from the web.
• Paul Krugman's page on Academia.edu
• The Unofficial Paul Krugman Archive contains nearly all his pre-Times Select articles
• Paul Krugman (MIT) archives of his Slate and Fortune columns plus other writings 1996-2000
• Template:Worldcat id
• IDEAS/RePEc
• Open Directory Project - Paul Krugman directory category
• Paul Krugman Speaker Biography on the World Business Forum website where he is a speaker for the 2009 event

Critical

• "The Partisan" - review of Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal from The New York Review of Books (payment required)
• http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=790 The 'Usefully Dangerous' Economist, By Mark Levinson, Dissent Magazine, Spring 2007

Media

• Video: "Hey, Paul Krugman (A song, A plea)" by Jonathan Mann (via rockcookiebottom.com)
• Video: Open Mind Interview, 2002: Part One, 2002,Part Two
• Audio: The New Class War In America featuring Amy Goodman, Paul Krugman, Greg Palast and Randi Rhodes recorded on June 13, 2006 at The New York Society for Ethical Culture, mp3 format, Video: alternate
• Video: Paul Krugman speaks at the World Affairs Council - Sept. 2007
• Audio: Interview by Paul "Dr. Beardy" Krugman on Liberadio(!) with Mary Mancini and Freddie O'Connell, October 22, 2007
• Video: The Conscience of a Liberal (November 3, 2007) - lecture from Mr. Krugman's 2007 book tour.
• Video of debate/discussion with Paul Krugman and Mario Cuomo on Bloggingheads.tv
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK3-HAdUJx0 The Krugman Blues (2008)

v t e Laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
1969–1975	1969: Ragnar Frisch / Jan Tinbergen 1970: Paul A. Samuelson 1971: Simon Kuznets 1972: John R. Hicks / Kenneth J. Arrow 1973: Wassily Leontief 1974: Gunnar Myrdal / Friedrich August von Hayek 1975: Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich / Tjalling C. Koopmans
1976–2000	1976: Milton Friedman 1977: Bertil Ohlin / James E. Meade 1978: Herbert A. Simon 1979: Theodore W. Schultz / Sir Arthur Lewis 1980: Lawrence R. Klein 1981: James Tobin 1982: George J. Stigler 1983: Gérard Debreu 1984: Richard Stone 1985: Franco Modigliani 1986: James M. Buchanan Jr. 1987: Robert M. Solow 1988: Maurice Allais 1989: Trygve Haavelmo 1990: Harry M. Markowitz / Merton H. Miller / William F. Sharpe 1991: Ronald H. Coase 1992: Gary S. Becker 1993: Robert W. Fogel / Douglass C. North 1994: John C. Harsanyi / John F. Nash Jr. / Reinhard Selten 1995: Robert E. Lucas Jr. 1996: James A. Mirrlees / William Vickrey 1997: Robert C. Merton / Myron S. Scholes 1998: Amartya Sen 1999: Robert A. Mundell 2000: James J. Heckman / Daniel L. McFadden
2001–present	2001: George A. Akerlof / A. Michael Spence / Joseph E. Stiglitz 2002: Daniel Kahneman / Vernon L. Smith 2003: Robert F. Engle III / Clive W.J. Granger 2004: Finn E. Kydland / Edward C. Prescott 2005: Robert J. Aumann / Thomas C. Schelling 2006: Edmund S. Phelps 2007: Leonid Hurwicz / Eric S. Maskin / Roger B. Myerson 2008: Paul Krugman 2009: Elinor Ostrom / Oliver E. Williamson 2010: Peter A. Diamond / Dale T. Mortensen / Christopher A. Pissarides 2011: Thomas J. Sargent / Christopher A. Sims 2012: Alvin E. Roth / Lloyd S. Shapley 2013: Eugene F. Fama / Lars Peter Hansen / Robert J. Shiller 2014: Jean Tirole 2015: Angus Deaton 2016: Oliver Hart / Bengt Holmström 2017: Richard H. Thaler 2018: William Nordhaus / Paul Romer 2019: Abhijit Banerjee / Esther Duflo / Michael Kremer 2020: Paul Milgrom / Robert B. Wilson 2021: David Card / Joshua Angrist / Guido Imbens 2022: Ben Bernanke / Douglas Diamond / Philip H. Dybvig 2023: Claudia Goldin 2024: Daron Acemoglu / Simon Johnson / James A. Robinson

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