Swedes Love Paul Krugman
Just for the record, as the economic blogosphere and mainstream media have already been commenting on this for hours: this year’s Nobel laureate in Economics is Paul Krugman, a scientist known mostly for his work on economic geography and foreign trade and also from his left-wing column in New York Times. His sharp public profile stirs a lot of controversy so the timing of the award will be without doubt read by some as a political statement made just before the US presidential election of 2008.
You can read more about this all over the Internet but to make things simpler here are some links on Krugman and the award:
- Peter Boettke does not agree with the decision although he postpones his emotions in his Forbes column
- Financial Times sums up Krugman’s work
- Tyler Cowen offers his view of Krugman’s contribution to the field of economics
- New York Times adds something about the award itself
- Avinash Dixit explains a huge part of Krugman’s papers
- Rusell Roberts comments on some of Krugman’s most infamous statements and gives his perspective on political implications of the prize
- Foreign Policy mentions a connection between Krugman’s award and Al Gore’s Peace Prize
- Lew Rockwell is just furious, which is nothing unexpected
- Justin Fox at Time Magazine brings a bit of historical background to the story
- here you can scan through Krugman’s books that Amazon offers
- Krugman himself seems to be surprised
There are many more articles to read through if you find the list above to be insufficient.
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- 11:59 pm, October 13, 2008
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- economics Nobel Prize Paul Krugman Sweden
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