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Paul Krugman Economist. Nobel Winner Paul Krugman 's Little Known Facts:

Paul Krugman full name Paul Robin Krugman aged 55 years is an American economist, 

columnist, author, and intellectual. 

Paul Krugman is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. 

Paul Krugman is also a columnist for The New York Times, writing a blog and a twice-weekly 

op-ed column for the newspaper since 2000.

Paul Krugman is well known in academia for his work in trade theory and for his textbook 

explanations of currency crises and New Trade Theory. 

Paul Krugman best known work provides a model in which firms and countries produce and 

trade because of economies of scale. 

Paul Krugman was a critic of the New Economy of the late 1990s. 

Paul Krugman also criticized the fixed exchange rates in East and Southeast Asia, and Thailand's 

economic policies before the 1997 East Asian financial crisis. 

Just before the 1998 Russian financial crisis, Paul Krugman also criticized investors such as 

Long-Term Capital Management whose profits depended on the maintenance of fixed exchange rates. 

Paul Krugman is generally considered a neo-Keynesian economist, with his views outlined in 

his books such as Peddling Prosperity. 

Paul Krugman 's International Economics: Theory and Policy currently in its eighth edition is a 

standard textbook on international economics without calculus. 

In 1991, Paul Krugman was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association. 

According to IDEAS / RePEc, Paul Krugman is among the 50 most influential economists in the 

world today.

In 2008, Paul Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Paul Krugman is generally considered a political liberal or progressive, and is an ardent critic 

of the George W. Bush administration and its foreign and domestic policy. 

Unlike many economic pundits, Paul Krugman is also regarded as an important scholarly contributor 

by his peers.

Paul Krugman has written over 200 scholarly papers and 20 books—some academic, and some written 

for the layperson.