Krugman was born to a Russian Jewish family, the son of Anita and David Krugman. In 1914, his maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Ukraine, while in 1920, his paternal grandparents

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Krugman became an assistant professor at Yale University in September 1977. He joined the faculty at MITin 1979. From 1982 to 1983, Krugman

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In the 1990s, besides academic books and textbooks, Krugman increasingly began writing books for a general audience on issues he considered

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Martin Wolf has written that Krugman is both the "most hated and most admired columnist in the US". Economist J. Peter Nearyhas

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Krugman describes himself as liberal, and has explained that he views the term "liberal" in the American context to mean "more or less what

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In 1998 during the dot-com bubble, Krugman wrote a commentary for Red Herringthat urged skepticism of optimistic predictions for technology-driven progress. He followed it

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Keynesian economics
Krugman identifies as a Keynesian and a saltwater economist, and he has criticized the

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