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Robin Elizabeth Wells
Wells in 2010
Born	1959
Nationality	American
Spouse	Paul Krugman
Academic career
Field	International finance Contract theory
Institution	Stanford Graduate School of Business MIT Department of Economics Princeton University Department of Economics
Alma mater	University of Chicago (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

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

Life and career

Wells received her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. 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.

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. 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.

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. ^ The Guardian: Robin Wells
3. Economics, 1st Edition by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, Worth Publishers; 1st edition (December 28, 2005)

External links

• Biographical sketch, Huffington Post
• Biographical sketch, Worth Publishers
• Appearances on C-SPAN

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