Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman (L) is greeted with flowers as he arrives at a government guest house in Hanoi on May 22, 2009. Krugman is attending a meeting with Vietnamese economists and officials over recommendations on Vietnam's development strategy in world economy and post-financial crisis. The worst of the global economic crisis is probably over but any early recovery is unlikely due to massive debts worldwide, said Krugman earlier in the week. Getty Images logo Getty Images 6 months ago

Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman (L) is greeted with flowers as he arrives at a government guest house in Hanoi on May 22, 2009. Krugman is attending a meeting with Vietnamese economists and officials over recommendations on Vietnam's development strategy in world economy and post-financial crisis. The worst of the global economic crisis is probably over but any early recovery is unlikely due to massive debts worldwide, said Krugman earlier in the week.

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  1. WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 03: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (2L) sits with journalists, including New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman (2R), during the closing session of the administration's Jobs and Economic Growth Forum in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building December 3, 2009 in Washington, DC. The White House is billing the forum as an opportunity for Obama and his economic team to hear from CEOs, small business owners, labor leaders and nonprofit heads about economic policy.
  2. Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman speaks in a press conference during the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009.

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  5. Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman speaks during the World Business Forum in New York October 7, 2009.
  6. WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 03: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (2L) sits with journalists, including New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman (2R), during the closing session of the administration's Jobs and Economic Growth Forum in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building December 3, 2009 in Washington, DC. The White House is billing the forum as an opportunity for Obama and his economic team to hear from CEOs, small business owners, labor leaders and nonprofit heads about economic policy.
  7. WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 03: New York Times columnists Paul Krugman (L) and Thomas Friedman talk before the start of the Obama administration's Jobs and Economic Growth Forum in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building December 3, 2009 in Washington, DC. The White House is billing the forum as is an opportunity for Obama and his economic team to hear from CEOs, small business owners, labor leaders and nonprofit heads about economic policy.
  8. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman speaks at the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul October 14, 2009.
  9. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman speaks at a press conference during the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009. Krugman said that central banks should fight the urge to raise interest rates until the global economy shows stronger signs of recovery and joblessness begins to decline.
  10. Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman speaks in a press conference during the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009.
  11. Sword-swallower Dan Meyer, left, has a sword removed from his throat by a group of Nobel laureates including the 2008 Nobel prize winner in economics Paul Krugman, front right, during a skit at the Ig Nobel prize awards ceremony, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.
  12. In this book cover released by W.W. Norton & Co., "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008," by Paul Krugman, is shown.

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