《《保罗·克鲁格曼自传》》.pdfVIP

INCIDENTS FROM MY CAREER、 1. Becoming an economist 3 2. Finding a vision 8 3. Washington 13 4. Consolidation and crisis 16 5. Getting back on track 18 6. A broader audience 21 7. Back to the vision 25 8. What have I been up to? 28 9. The point of it all 37 My personal life is not interesting. I dont mean that I am an especially deadly dinner companion, or that I have not had my fair share of lifes joys and miseries. What I mean is that only my friends and family are interested in the more intimate details of my history; nobody reading this essay wants to know about my marital or health problems (or if you do, its none of your business!). What readers want to know, presumably, is how I came to be the particular sort of economist I am -- how I came to write the books and papers I did, and more generally how I arrived both at the particular ideas I have inflicted on the world and at whatever distinctive features there are in my intellectual style. Lives are seamless, so everything affects everything else: my economic theories have no doubt been influenced by my relationship with my cats (which is, I hasten to add, mature and mutually supportive) and vice versa. What I will try to focus on in this essay, however, are the incidents in my professional life that I think were important -- the experiences that in obvious ways influenced the way I write and think. I will also, along the way, try to convey something of the flavor of what it is to be a successful academic economist in late 20th-century America. No matter what we may say, none of us is a philosopher-saint, and you cant fully understand the development of economic ideas without a sense of the structure of rewards that economists face. Thats why I call this essay Incidents from my career; I may have been in pursuit of Truth and Beauty, but I, like everyone, was also in pursuit of success. Most of this essay is a series of vignettes from my professi