Paul Krugman

Tuuesday November 3rd and it was time for another Guilford College Bryan Series lecture, this time with Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman. It was a sobering evening of financial crises, looming despair, and "avoiding catastrophe but facing tragedy". Ugh.

Not blessed with the business mind, I found myself wandering at times. A heavy topic that SHOULD hold my attention, but business and economics and accounting hold no interest for me. A speaker whose merits and knowledge are unsurpassed, yet I struggled to pay attention. I struggled to decipher the topic.

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Paul Krugman—Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

Paul Krugman is an American economist, columnist, author and intellectual. He is a 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, Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.” Krugman is well-known in academia for his work in international economics, including trade theory, economic geography and international finance. His most recent books are The Return of Depression Economics and The Conscience of a Liberal.

Read and respond to Paul Krugman's New York Times blog here.