October 14, 2008

Nobel Economist's Persona Should Not Obscure His Landmark Research, Colleagues Say

By David Glenn

"Before my 25th birthday, I basically knew what I was going to do with my professional life," Paul Krugman wrote in an autobiographical essay in The American Economist in 1993.

By that he meant that, while he was still a graduate student, he had decided to focus on formal models of international trade and the location of economic activity. Beginning in 1979—the year he turned 26—Mr. Krugman, who is now a

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