Paul Krugman, columnist for The New York Times for nearly 25 years, is retiring at the end of this year.
“Time and again, he took on the big fights, grappled with policy deeply and seriously, held the powerful to account and spoke hard truths — sometimes as a lonely voice arguing unfashionable positions,” Kathleen Kingsbury, opinion editor, wrote in a memo this morning.
Krugman plans to write a final column.
Krugman won a Nobel in economic sciences in 2008. He was particularly outspoken in his warning that the government response to the financial crisis of that time frame was insufficient to boosting the job market, which took years to recover.
Kingsbury wrote that “through the Trump era and the Biden presidency, Paul was ever-sharp about the critical stakes facing the country, not least the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump and how his plans could radically harm the economy. A few weeks before this year’s election, Paul took a deep dive into Trump’s tariff plans, laying out for readers in clear and urgent writing why his economic policy ideas could do enormous damage to American society. He ended the essay with a classic Krugman kicker, where he summarized the cons of Trump’s tariffs in one graf and then wrote in the final graf, ‘Pros: I can’t think of any.’”
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Krugman is a professor at City University of New York Graduate Center, and previously was professor at Princeton and on the faculties of MIT, Yale and Stanford.
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