Krugman Public Lecture @ LSE 4/05/07

theme: Manufactured imports from developing countries have risen sharply since the mid-90s, when the effects of trade on inequality were a major political issue. Should we be reconsidering the link between globalisation and inequality?

Paul Krugman is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. He is also an author and a columnist for The New York Times, writing twice-weekly for the newspaper since 2000. Krugman is well known in academia for his work in trade theory in providing a model in which firms and countries produce and trade because of economies of scale and for his textbook explanations of currency crises (his New Trade Theory).

Krugman is also known for his liberal views and is generally considered a neo-Keynesian, with his views outlined in his books such as Peddling Prosperity. He is an outspoken critic of the George W. Bush administration and its foreign and domestic policy. In 1991 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association, in 2002, the columnist of the year prize by "Editor and Publisher" magazine, and in 2004, the Prince of Asturias Award in Social Sciences, by Fundación Príncipe de Asturias (Spain). [source: wikipedia (adapted)]

Date: Friday 4 May 2007
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Chair: Professor Tony Venables

ps. This is a ticketed event but there often are spare seats...just show up at the door and wait till they seat you...it always seems to work at these events!