Krugman Leaves Princeton For Public University

Noted economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is leaving Princeton University after 13 years to become a professor in the Ph.D. program in economics at City University of New York (CUNY).

Fighting elitist reputation

Krugman, author of over 20 books and a popular columnist at the New York Times since 1999, has battled charges that he is an elitist, a charge he has denied in the past. The move from Princeton to a public university could be seen as a strategy to firmly establish a more populist reputation.

“It is in no sense a commentary on Princeton, which has been...