By the numbers

Paul Krugman is the eighth Princeton faculty member, staff member or alumnus to be awarded a Nobel Prize in economics. The others are:

Faculty/staff

• 2007 — Eric Maskin, visiting lecturer with the rank of professor of economics
• 2002 — Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs
• 1994 — John Nash (Ph.D. 1950), senior research mathematician
• 1979 — Sir W. Arthur Lewis, the James Madison Professor of Political Economy

Alumni

• 2001 — A. Michael Spence (A.B. 1966)
• 2000 — James Heckman (Ph.D. 1971)
• 1992 — Gary Becker (A.B. 1951)