Paul Krugman Explains What Exactly Went Wrong

When Paul Krugman held the floor at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, he became Zócalo’s first guest to require a strictly policed door. He was also Zócalo’s first guest capable of discussing what it feels like to win a Nobel Prize. “Nothing exercises me too much in the last couple weeks” since his win, Krugman said. This year’s economics winner – also a New York Times columnist and professor at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Relations – spoke before a capacity crowd at a pivotal …