Paul Krugman

Princeton University Professor Paul Krugman presented the 2010 Summer Lecture, “Inequality and Crises: Coincidence or Causality?,” also billed as the keynote lecture for the 2010 LIS Conference on Inequality and the Middle Class.

Paul Krugman is Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs at Princeton University. He has been an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times since 1999.

Prof. Krugman has authored over 20 books and published over 200 scholarly articles. His research focuses on international trade and financing; he has been influential in the rethinking of international trade through his participation in the “new trade theory”.

Numerous awards and honors have been presented to Prof. Krugman as a result of his contribution to economics, including the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008.

April 29, 2011 | Lecture Series