Paul Krugman has been dubbed "the most celebrated economist of his generation" by The Economist magazine. Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Krugman 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, Th Great Unraveling, was a New York Times bestseller. In addition to the Nobel, Krugman has also received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association and the Austrias Awards - often called the European Pulitzer Prize - given by the King of Spain.