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News Source: Financial Times
| 2 months ago
However, the prize was awarded for work done almost three decades ago in developing what is known as “new trade theory” and “new economic geography”. Earlier trade theories suggested that a country would trade with partners that were...
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News Source: The New York Observer
| 2 months ago
This morning in an front page story by Catherine Rampell, The New York Times took a moment to gush about its Nobel prize-winning columnist, Paul Krugman. After listing the Princeton professor and columnist's many laurels, Ms. Rampell wrote: In recent...
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News Source: io9
| 2 months ago
Newly Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman was inspired to become an economist by reading science fiction, as Patrick Nielsen-Hayden over at Tor.com reminds us. Krugman says he read Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy and wanted to become a psychohistorian ...
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News Source: India Abroad
| 2 months ago
Paul Krugman is perhaps most widely known as a columnist in The New York Times . On the day that he was awarded the Nobel prize in economics for 2008, his column sharply criticised the Bush administration for its handling of the financial crisis,...
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News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 2 months ago
As a columnist and blogger for the New York Times, Mr. Krugman, 55 years old, has taken the Bush administration to task over its waging of the Iraq war and, more recently, its handling of the financial-system bailout. Mr. Krugman also has faulted...
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News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 months ago
The winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for economics said the US is plunging into a ``nasty recession'' with a ``lot of suffering'' to come, even if policy makers succeed in unfreezing the credit markets. ``That's baked in,'' Princeton University...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 2 months ago
There are at least two ways to think about today's awarding of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economic Science to Princeton University Professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. First, there are the reasons why Krugman would have earned such an...
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News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| 2 months ago
Anyone who bought stocks in mid-1929 and held on to them saw..... pass by before getting back to even”? 7. When the new winner of the Nobel economics prize, Paul Krugman, applauded the “clarity and decisiveness” shown in implementing a banking...
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News Source: Indian Express
| 2 months ago
aul Krugman is not the first economist with a big public profile to have won the Economics Nobel. Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz in recent years and Milton Friedman earlier fit that description. He isnt the first economist with punchy public...
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News Source: The Nation
| 2 months ago
As a young academic, he made a tremendous splash through his work on economic geography, developing what came to be known as New Trade Theory. I'm not an economist, but luckily the internet is full of them and Ed Glaeser (along with a few others) has...