The Accidental Theorist

Some people know Paul Krugman, the academic: the man who revolutionised New Trade Theory, New Economic Geography, currency crises and liquidity traps. Other know him as Paul Krugman, the political columnist and commentator of New York Times fame.

But the Paul Krugman I know is the economic storyteller - a writer who delights in using deceptively simple models to illuminate deep economic truths.

In The Accidental Theorist (as in his other 1990s classics The Age of Diminished Expectations and Pop Internationalism), Krugman uses his trademark blend of acerbic wit and silly little models to cut through common myths about the trade deficit, globalisation, the Asian financial crisis and more.