| About the Authors Paul Krugman is Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where he regularly teaches the principles course. He received his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from MIT. Prior to his current position, he taught at Yale, Stanford, and MIT. He also spent a year on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors in 1982-83.His research is mainly in the area of international trade, where he is one of the founders of the "new trade theory" with its focus on increasing returns and imperfect competition. He also works in international finance, with a concentration in currency crises. In 1991, Krugman received the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark medal. In addition to his teaching and academic research, Krugman writes extensively for nontechnical audiences. Krugman is a regular op-ed columnist for The New York Times. His latest trade book (published in September, 2003) is a collection of his NYT articles entitlted The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century. His earlier books, Peddling Prosperity and The Age of Diminished Expectations, have become modern classics. Robin Wells is Researcher in Economics at Princeton University, where she regularly teaches undergraduate courses. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley; she then did post-doctoral work at MIT. She has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Southampton (U.K.)., Stanford, and MIT. Her teaching and research focus on the theory of organizations and incentives. She writes regularly for academic journals. |