Robin Wells

Robin Elizabeth Wells
Wells in 2010
Born1959
NationalityAmerican
SpousePaul Krugman
Academic career
Field
Institution
Alma mater

Robin Elizabeth Wells (born 1959)[1] is an American economist. She is the co-author of several economics texts, mostly with her husband Paul Krugman.[2]

Life and career

Wells received her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.[3] Wells did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught or done research at the University of Michigan, the University of Southampton, Stanford University, MIT, and Princeton University.[2]

Wells is the co-author of several economics books with her husband, economist Paul Krugman, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, that rank among the top selling economics textbooks used in U.S. colleges today.[citation needed] For The Occupy Handbook, Wells served as guest editor and contributed an original article. She is a frequent writer for The Guardian online, has published articles in economics journals, and has blogged for The Huffington Post. With her husband, she has co-authored both articles and book reviews for The New York Review of Books. Wells teaches Forrest Yoga in Princeton, New Jersey.[2]

Selected bibliography

  • Economics: European Edition (Spring 2007), Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, and Kathryn Graddy. ISBN 0-7167-9956-1
  • Macroeconomics (February 2006), Paul Krugman and Robin Wells. ISBN 0-7167-6763-5
  • Economics (December 2005), Paul Krugman and Robin Wells. ISBN 1-57259-150-1
  • Microeconomics (March 2004), Paul Krugman and Robin Wells. ISBN 0-7167-5997-7
  • The Occupy Handbook (April 2012), edited by Janet Byrne. ISBN 0-3162-2021-3

References

  1. ^ Larissa MacFarquhar (1 March 2010). "The Deflationist: How Paul Krugman found politics". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
  2. ^ a b c The Guardian: Robin Wells
  3. ^ Economics, 1st Edition by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, Worth Publishers; 1st edition (December 28, 2005)


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