Paul Krugman: Whither the Economy? September 29, 2005

Prolific New York Times columnist Paul Krugman discusses Social Security, the federal deficit and international trade, focusing on how these issues affect our economy and individual Americans. Krugman, a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, joined The New York Times in 1999 as a columnist.

Krugman is a familiar name in the International Relations, Economics and Development Studies curricula at colleges/universities all over. He studied at MIT with Jagdish Bhagwati, another superstar economist.