Paul Robin Krugman , born the February 28th 1953 with Long Island in the State of New York, is a American economist, and holds a platform since 2000 with the NewYork Times . It initially followed studies of history to the University of Yale, then with the Massachusetts Institute off Technology (MIT), where it obtained its doctorate of economy in 1977. After having taught in Yale, Stanford and with MIT, he is professor of economy and International relations with the Université of Princeton. Krugman is known for its criticisms against the general policy and economic of the administration of George W Bush.

It is one of the principal authors of the new theory of the international business, which rests on the trade intra-firm and intra-industry, the effects of network, and the imperfect competition. In 1991, it receives the Médaille John Bates Clark of the American Economic Association (allotted every two years to an economist of less than 40 years having contributed a substantial share to the economic scenes), which makes of him a potential candidate to the “Nobel Prize” of economy. He is joint author with Maurice Obstfeld of International Economics: Theory and Policy , the book of course more used in this field in the United States, as well as score of other works.

Krugman was made known general public by its popularizing works published since the end of the year 1980, where it is attacked inter alia with the economic misinterpretations hawked by the Think tank S . It really became celebrates since its entry with the NewYork Times , in which it writes a leading article per week twice; it was illustrated there like one of the most virulent criticisms of George W. Bush.

Works published in French

• self-organizing economy , ED. De Boeck, 1998,128p,
• the age of the decreasing outputs , ED. Economica, 2000,206p,
• universalization is not guilty: virtues and limits of free trade , ( Pop internationalism ) ED. The Discovery, 2000,218p,
• Why the crises return always , ED. Threshold, 2000,213p,
• America skids , ED. Flammarion, 2004,493p,
• international Economy , ED. Pearson Education, 2006 (7th), 713p,

External bonds

• Biography of NewYork Times
• official Page of Paul Krugman
• The Official Paul Krugman Web page (old official page with MIT)
• The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web page
• Of Paul Krugman: America skids (and its media also…) (Acrimed)