A New York Times op-ed columnist since 1999, Paul Krugman won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work in international trade and economic geography. He is the author or editor of 23 books, including The Age of Diminished Expectations and The Conscience of a Liberal, as well as the former monthly columns "No Free Lunch" in Fortune and "The Dismal Science" in Slate. He received the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for his "Paul Krugman Columns" in the New York Times. In his new book, End This Depression Now!, Krugman suggests a way to prevent our current economic state from spiraling into a second Great Depression.   

In conversation with Mark Zandi, Chief Economist of Moody's Analytics