- Born
- Birth namePaul Robin Krugman
- Nickname
- Kruggles
- Paul Robin Krugman, an actor and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, a columnist for The New York Times and the 2008 Economics Nobel Laureate for his contributions to New Trade Theory. Besides being famous for his important economics textbooks, he's known for his performance in Get Him To The Greek.
- IMDb mini biography by: EJMRBear
- SpouseRobin Wells(? - present)
- 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.
- In 2008, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- Born into a Jewish family and grew up on Long Island in New York. Married to Robin Wells, a fellow professor at Princeton, his second wife. They have no children.
- 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. Taught at Yale Universty, MIT, UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics and Stanford University before joining the faculty of Princeton University in 2000.
- American economist, columnist and author.
- [observation, 1998] The growth of the Internet will slow dramatically [as it] becomes apparent that most people have nothing to say to each other. By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's... Ten years from now the phrase information economy will sound silly.
- [observation, August 2016] By now, it's obvious to everyone with open eyes that Donald Trump is an ignorant, wildly dishonest, erratic, immature, bullying egomaniac. On the other hand, he's a terrible person.
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