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A Nobel Prize Winner Writes on Economics and Politics
October 13, 2008
During the past few weeks as the financial markets have melted down, I have turned to Princeton University professor Paul Krugman's New York Times op-ed columns for his lucid and insightful analysis of the global crisis. Today the economist was honored with the Nobel Prize in Economics for his more academic research regarding trade and globalization. Readers unfamiliar with his economic work may want to check out The Accidental Theorist: Essays on the Dismal Science, which LJ reviewer Norman Hutcherson in a June 15, 1998 review praised as bringing "a ray of sunlight to what was the dismal science of economics, making the discoveries and theories of serious economists comprehensible and exciting for students and casual readers alike."
Fans of Krugman's more political NY Times columns (he is sharply critical of the Bush administration) can catch up with the essays they missed by reading The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the American Century, which collects more than 100 of his columns published between 1997 and 2003. LJ reviewer Susan Hurst praises this volume as "a thought-provoking book, at times enraging or depressing, sometimes even funny (depending on one's political leanings.)"
Posted by Wilda Williams on October 13, 2008 | Comments (0)
