- 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, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- Born into a Jewish family and grew up on Long Island in New York. Married to Robin Wells, a fellow professor at Princeton, his second wife. They have no children.
- Earned his B.A. in economics from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1977. From 1982 to 1983, he spent a year working at the Reagan White House as a staff member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Taught at Yale Universty, MIT, UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics and Stanford University before joining the faculty of Princeton University in 2000.
- American economist, columnist and author.
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