Columnist Biography: Paul Krugman
aul Krugman joined The Times on October 7, 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page
and continues as Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974, and his Ph.D. from MIT
in 1977, where he was the Ford International Professor of Economics. From 1977 to
1979 he taught at Yale then moved to MIT, where he remained on the faculty from 1979
to 1994, he then moved to Stanford from 1994 until 1996. In 1982-3, on leave from
MIT, he served as chief international economist of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Mr. Krugman is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 papers in professional
journals and edited volumes. His professional reputation rests largely on work in
international trade and finance; he is one of the founders of the "new trade
theory," a major rethinking of the theory of international trade. In recognition
of that work, in 1991 the American Economic Association awarded him its John Bates
Clark medal, a prize given every two years to "that economist under forty who
is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic knowledge."
Mr. Krugman’s current academic research is focussed on the application of ideas from
complexity theory and the concept of self-organizing systems to economics.
At the same time, Mr. Krugman has written extensively for a broader public audience,
including a monthly column under the byline "The Dismal Scientist" for
the Internet magazine Slate. Some of his recent articles on economic issues, originally
published in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, Scientific
American, and other journals, are reprinted in Pop Internationalism and
The Accidental Theorist.
Mr. Krugman was born on February 28, 1953.