克鲁格曼个人自传.doc

克鲁格曼个人自传
INCIDENTS FROM MY CAREER
My personal life is not interesting. I don't mean that I am an especially deadly panion, or that I have not had my fair share of life's 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, it's 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 thinkI will also, along the way, try to convey something of the flavor of what it is to be a essful academic economist in late 20th-century America. No matter what we may say, none of us is a philosopher-saint, and you can't fully understand the development of economic ideas without a sense of the structure of rewards that economists face. That's 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 essMost of this essay is a series of tes from my professional life, in chronological order. I follow this story of my life with a discussion of what I think was the point of it all: my personal assessment of what I did to and for economics.
1. ing an economist
I have a self-serving theory: interesting ideas have very little to do with interesting life experiences.