Economic Sciences

Press release

Swedish 13 oktober 2008 har beslutat att utdela Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne år 2008 till Paul Krugman Princeton University, NJ, USA “för hans analys av handelsmönster och lokalisering av ekonomisk verksamhet” Internationell handel och ekonomisk geografi Frågor om handelsmönster och lokalisering har alltid stått i centrum för den ekonomiska…

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Press release

English 13 October 2008 has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 to Paul Krugman Princeton University, NJ, USA “for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity” International Trade and Economic Geography Patterns of trade and location have always been key issues in…

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Other resources

  The Laureate , Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, USA   Popular science literature Krugman, P (2000): “Geography and Trade”, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA Krugman, P & Obstfeld M (2009): “International Economics: theory and policy”, 8th edition, Pearson. 712 pp.   Selected scientific articles Krugman, P (1979) Increasing Returns, Monopolistic Competition, and International Trade, Journal…

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Other resources

Links to other sites Interview Campbell, J.Y. and R.J. Shiller (2007), “Robert Shiller interviewed by John Campbell”, ch. 11 in P.A. Samuelson and W.A. Barnett, Inside the Economist’s Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists, Blackwell/Wiley. Article Shiller, R.J. (2000), Irrational Exuberance, Princeton University Press.

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Biographical

I was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 29, 1920. The high school my parents chose for me was the Lutheran Gymnasium in Budapest, one of the best schools in Hungary, with such distinguished alumni as John von Neumann and . I was very happy in this school and received a superb education. In 1937,…

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