A bit of autobiography, October 13,2008, (Paul Krugman on Wikipedia)
"Around 1992 I wrote an autobiographical essay for a collection about economists’ lives, which some readers might find interesting. Around the same time I also wrote about “How I Work”, also of some possible interest." (go to original article for links)
Autobiographical essay starts of as follows:
INCIDENTS FROM MY CAREER
My personal life is not interesting. I don't mean that I am an especially deadly dinner companion, 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...
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