EconEd 2023

Paul Krugman received the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and taught at Princeton University for 14 years. In 2015, he joined the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, associated with the Luxembourg Income Study, which tracks and analyzes income inequality around the world. He received his BA from Yale and his Ph.D. from MIT. Before Princeton, he taught at Yale, Stanford, and MIT. He also spent a year on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1982–1983. His research has included trailblazing work on international trade, economic geography, and currency crises. In 1991, Krugman received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal. In addition to his teaching and academic research, Krugman writes extensively for nontechnical audiences. He is a regular op-ed columnist for the New York Times. His best-selling trade books include End This Depression Now!, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, and The Conscience of a Liberal. His earlier books, Peddling Prosperity and The Age of Diminished Expectations, have become modern classics.

Ryan Herzog has been teaching at Gonzaga University since the Fall of 2009. He is a native Washingtonian, born in Tacoma, Washington where he spent most of his life around the Puget Sound. Professor Herzog's academic interest range from topics related to international finance, macroeconomics, and regional business cycles. He loves advising students on graduate school options or helping them on their internship/career paths. In the classroom, he diverges from the traditional lecture style through interactive assignments and in-class problem sets. He encourages student participation during lectures and keeps students active in the classroom through the use of technology and economic experiments.