Biography of

Born Feb. 28, 1953

Education , bachelor’s degree, 1974 Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 1977

Employment , professor, July 2000-present Massachusetts Institute of Technology, professor, Aug. 1996-June 2000 , professor, July 1994-July 1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, professor, July 1984-June 1994 Council of Economic Advisers, international policy economist, Sept. 1982-Aug. 1983 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, associate professor, July 1980-June 1984 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, visiting assistant professor, Sept. 1979-June 1980 Yale University, assistant professor, Sept. 1977-June 1980

Other affiliations The New York Times, columnist, 2000-present Fortune magazine, columnist, 1997-99 Slate magazine, columnist, 1996-99 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fellow, 1992-present Group of 30, member, 1988-present Econometric Society, fellow, 1987-present Institute of International Economics, member of board of advisers, 1986-present National Bureau of Economic Research, research associate, 1979-present

Honors

Nobel Prize in economics, 2008 Memorial Prize for Innovative Work in , North American Regional Science Council, 2002 Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science (with and ), 2001 Adam Smith Award, National Association for Business Economics, 1995 John Bates Clark Medal, American Economic Association, 1991 George EcclesPrize for Excellence in Economic Writing, Columbia University Business School, 1991

Selected books

“The Conscience of a Liberal,” W.W. Norton, 2007 “Microeconomics” (with Robin Wells), Worth Publishers, 2004 “The Great Unraveling,” W.W. Norton, 2003 “Fuzzy Math,” W.W. Norton, 2001 “The Spatial Economy” (with Masahisa Fujita and Anthony Venables), MIT Press, 1999 “The Return of Depression Economics,” W.W. Norton, 1999 “The Accidental Theorist,” W.W. Norton, 1998 “Pop Internationalism,” MIT Press, 1996 “The Self-Organizing Economy,” Blackwell Publishers, 1996 “Development, Geography and Economic Theory,” MIT Press, 1995 “Peddling Prosperity,” W.W. Norton, 1994 “Currencies and Crises,” MIT Press, 1992 “Geography and Trade,” MIT Press, 1991 “The Age of Diminished Expectations,” MIT Press, 1990 “Rethinking International Trade,” MIT Press, 1990 “Foreign Direct Investment in the United States” (with Edward Graham), Institute for International Economics, 1989 “Market Structure and Trade Policy” (with Elhanan Helpman), MIT Press, 1989 “International Economics: Theory and Policy” (with Maurice Obstfeld), Scott Foresman/Little Brown, 1988 “Market Structure and Foreign Trade” (with Elhanan Helpman), MIT Press, 1985

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