A 2008 Nobel Prize-winner in Economics, Paul Krugman is an op-ed columnist for the New York Times and Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton. He is the author of several books, including The Conscience of a Liberal, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century and The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition: US Economic Policy in the 1990s.
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