NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 2008

KRUGMAN, P.

Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and Pattern of Trade.

Nashville, American Economic Association, 1980. Lex8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "The American Economic Review, December 1980". Entire issue offered. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 950-959. [Entire volume: (4), 839-1130, (54) pp.].

First printing of Krugman's groundbreaking paper on trade patterns which was of seminal importance in him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity". The paper was one of the most influential to be published within economics for decades.

Krugman, professor of Economics and International Affair at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and columnist for The New York Times. Krugman is known in academia for his work on international economics (including trade theory, economic geography, and international finance). liquidity traps and currency crises. He is the 18th most widely cited economist in the world today. Krugman has to a large extent advocated a Keynsian approach to public spending, an economic policy in general.

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