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Paul Robin Krugman (/ ˈ k r ʊ ɡ m ə n / ⓘ KRUUG-mən; [4] [5] born February 28, 1953) [6] is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He wrote as a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024. [7]
End This Depression Now! is a non-fiction book by the American economist Paul Krugman. The book is intended for a general audience and was published by W. W. Norton & Company in April 2012. Krugman has presented his book at the London School of Economics, [1] on fora.tv, [2] and elsewhere. [3]
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 is a non-fiction book by American economist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, written in response to growing socio-political discourse on the return of economic conditions similar to The Great Depression. [1]
Shortly after its publication, Newsweek called it "the best primer around on recent U.S. economic history." [1] In the book Krugman covers the US productivity slowdown that has occurred since the 1970s, changes in the ideology among economists, and offers critiques of both conservative supply side economics and liberal support for government intervention in the form of "strategic policy". [1]
Krugman argued that the large deficits during that time were generated by the Bush administration as a result of decreasing taxes on the rich, increasing public spending, and fighting the Iraq War. Krugman wrote that these policies were unsustainable in the long run and would eventually generate a major economic crisis. [7] [8] [9]
The Conscience of a Liberal is a 2007 book written by economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. It was 24th on the New York Times Best Seller list in November 2007. [ 2 ] The title was used originally in Senator Paul Wellstone 's book of the same name in 2001.
The reversal of the great compression has been called "the Great Divergence" by Krugman and is the title of a Slate article and book by Timothy Noah. [9] Krugman also notes that era before the Great Divergence was one not only of relative equality but of economic growth far surpassing the "Great Divergence". [10]
The Theory of Interstellar Trade [1] is a paper on hypothetical space trade written in 1978 by the economist Paul Krugman. The paper was first published in March 2010 in the journal Economic Inquiry. [2] He described the paper as something he wrote to cheer himself up when he was an "oppressed assistant professor" caught up in the academic rat ...