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Paul Krugman

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Paul Robin Krugman ( KRUUG-mən; born February 28, 1953) is an American New Keynesian economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024. In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Krugman has received more than 3,947,886 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Paul Krugman is the 44th most popular economist (up from 88th in 2019), the 631st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,198th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Economist.

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  • 70.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Paul Krugman ranks 44 out of 414. Before him are Karl Polanyi, Frédéric Bastiat, Robert Solow, Maurice Allais, Ronald Coase, and Friedrich List. After him are Bernard Mandeville, Gary Becker, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, William Stanley Jevons, Murray Rothbard, and John Hicks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Paul Krugman ranks 22. Before him are Richard Stallman, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Teresa Teng, Benazir Bhutto, Jim Jarmusch, and Carlos Queiroz. After him are Fatih Terim, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Daniel Passarella, Cyndi Lauper, Mike Oldfield, and Jean-Marie Pfaff.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Krugman ranks 631 out of 20,380. Before him are Sylvia Earle (1935), William Friedkin (1935), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Harold Ramis (1944), Whoopi Goldberg (1955), and Louisa May Alcott (1832). After him are Jamie Lee Curtis (1958), Carl Lewis (1961), Alfred Kinsey (1894), George Cukor (1899), Sidney Lumet (1924), and Charles Taze Russell (1852).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Paul Krugman ranks 8. Before him are Paul Samuelson (1915), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Michael Porter (1947), Herbert A. Simon (1916), Elinor Ostrom (1933), and Robert Solow (1924). After him are Gary Becker (1930), Murray Rothbard (1926), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Douglass North (1920), Theodore Schultz (1902), and Oliver E. Williamson (1932).

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