Robin Wells
{{short description|American economist}}
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Robin Elizabeth Wells (born 1959){{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/03/01/100301fa_fact_macfarquhar?printable=true|title=The Deflationist: How Paul Krugman found politics|author= Larissa MacFarquhar |date=1 March 2010|magazine=The New Yorker|accessdate=28 February 2010}} is an American economist. She is the co-author of several economics texts, mostly with her husband Paul Krugman.[https://www.theguardian.com/profile/robin-wells The Guardian: Robin Wells]
Life and career
Wells received her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.Economics, 1st Edition
by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, Worth Publishers; 1st edition (December 28, 2005) 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.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} 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}}
- [http://www.worthpublishers.com/krugmanwellsnew/main.htm 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
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External links
- [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-wells Biographical sketch], Huffington Post
- [http://www.worthpublishers.com/Catalog/Author/robinwells-1 Biographical sketch], Worth Publishers
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Category:American women economists
Category:University of Michigan faculty