Paul Krugman to speak on Obama’s legacy at Brooklyn College
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman will take part in a dialogue with Thomas Frank, Robert L. Hess scholar-in-residence at Brooklyn College, at the college’s annual Robert L. Hess lecture: “On the Obama Legacy.”
The lecture, named after the president of Brooklyn College in the 1970s, will take place on Thursday, March 26, from 12:30 to 2:05 p.m. at the college’s Whitman Theater, 2900 Bedford Ave.
In addition to being a Nobel Prize winner, Krugman is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, the author of more than 20 books and more than 200 articles in professional journals and a professor of economics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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