Paul R. Krugman

Paul Krugman was born in New York in 1953. He is a professor of economics and international relations at Princeton, teaches at the London School of Economics, and is well-known as a columnist for the "New York Times." In December 2008, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his groundbreaking work on international trade. His receipt of the John Bates Clark Medal in 1991 made him, at thirty-seven years old, the youngest scientist at the time to be included in the list of Nobel laureates in economic sciences. He is the author of numerous books and a contributor to magazines and newspapers such as "Fortune," "New York Times," "Washington Post," and the online magazine "Slate." His articles are regularly published in Greek in the newspaper "To Vima." Krugman is considered one of the foremost experts on the global economy and its mechanisms. He is recognized as a leading talent in presenting and analyzing international developments and economic structures in the most accessible and thought-provoking manner, providing immediate satisfaction to the reader. All this without making his thought simplistic. He is associated with the school of critical radical Keynesianism. Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson described him as the most important economist of the 20th and early 21st centuries. At MIT, he was also recognized as the most beloved economics professor among young people and intellectuals.