The Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program presents
The 2009 Goldstone Forum
Paul Krugman
Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics and columnist for the New York Times
“The Economic Challenges Ahead”
Wednesday, February 18
4 p.m.
Irvine Auditorium
This program is free and open to the public
About Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman has been dubbed “the most celebrated economist of his generation” by The Economist magazine. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, and he is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 professional journal articles—many of them on international trade and finance. His most recent book is The Conscience of a Liberal, and his previous work, The Great Unraveling, was a New York Times bestseller.
Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Krugman taught at MIT, Yale and Stanford. He also served as the senior international economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under Ronald Reagan.
Krugman is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Group of Thirty. He has acted as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, as well as to a number of countries, including Portugal and the Philippines.
In addition to the Nobel, Krugman has previously received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association and the Asturias Awards—often called the European Pulitzer Prize—given by the King of Spain.
The Goldstone Forum was established by a generous gift from Steven F. Goldstone, C’67, as part of the Steven Goldstone Fund for Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
This program is sponsored by the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program and the School of Arts and Sciences.