The Associated Press is reporting that New York Times columnist and Princeton University professor Paul Krugman has won the Nobel Prize in economics.
Per AP:
"He has thereby integrated the previously disparate research fields of international trade and economic geography," it said.
Mr. Krugman’s prize is 10 million kronor, or $1.4 million dollars.
On his Times-hosted blog, The Conscience of a Liberal, Mr. Krugman humbly wrote, "A funny thing happened to me this morning …"