Paul Krugman is an authentic national treasure. He's giving his Nobel Prize Lecture today, in Stockholm, on "Increasing Returns", and you can watch live here and video will be available later, of course. If you search around the Nobel Prize site, there are other Krugman treats here, including a video interview and a phone interview after he won the prize. Also a page of nice photos.
If you can't watch live -- 9am Eastern today -- do watch later. Be sure that you are a regular visitor to his New York Times blog, too, to which we have a link on our sidebar.
Our heartiest congrats to economist Paul Krugman for his newly-announced win of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences! In addition to his well-deserved win, Krugman is also a professor of Economics at Princeton University and the mind behind one of our favorite blogs, The Conscience of a Liberal, which he writes for The New York Times.
In addition to all that, he's a frequent and very welcome guest expert on television, and never fails to give brilliant observations while at the same time displaying a charming wry sense of humor that makes you laugh even as he's leading you unerringly to facing the grim truth of things. To prove my point, here are a couple of his appearances, first on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, and then in a clip which we've featured before, from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, from about three weeks ago. Of course, he's a little more amusing on Maher's show, but he has such an approachable demeanor no matter what, and is able to talk about economics in a way that assures us that this guy knows his stuff, and how. He's great:
Let's see. A brilliant guy, the perfect choice, just won something important and world-shaking. Might this be a good sign for us? I'm crossing my fingers.
Watch! Read Paul Krugman! Appreciate that America has such minds as this! Volunteer for Obama/Biden!!!
