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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

BigThink: Paul Krugman on Post-Consumer Society


Watch Paul Krugman speaking about the impact of the financial crisis on shopping mall culture. (Click on the title of this post to go to the BigThink website!)

Paul Robin Krugman, born February 28, 1953, is an American economist, columnist, intellectual and author.He is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, a centenary professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity". Krugman is known in academia for his work in international economics, including trade theory, economic geography, and international finance.

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