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E-mail a friendOctober 21, 2008
New York Times columnist and '08 Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explains what type of society he wants to live in and how America falls short. Travel writer Paul Theroux says although the U.S. is a multi-cultural society, the melting pot doesn't melt that much.
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Nobel Prize-winning economist describes the current financial crisis and explains how it will impact the presidential election. (2:12)
Full interview. (9:56)
Called "the Mick Jagger of political/economic punditry," Paul Krugman is an economist, professor and New York Times op-ed columnist. Now at Princeton, he's taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford. He's also been a consultant to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the U.N. and, during the Reagan administration, served on the Council of Economic Advisers. Krugman has won numerous awards, including the '08 Nobel Prize for economics, and is the author/editor of 20 books and more than 200 professional journal articles.
Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux
Travel writer explains how Americans are different from people in Third World countries when it comes to hospitality, acceptance and tradition. (4:04)
Full interview. (12:33)
Paul Theroux has numerous acclaimed novels and travel books to his credit. He gained notoriety with The Great Railway Bazaar, an account of his train travel from London to Japan and back, and has penned a follow-up, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star. Several of his titles have been adapted into motion pictures. Theroux previously taught in Malawi, as a Peace Corps volunteer, and also at Uganda's Makerere University and now divides his time between Cape Cod and Hawaii, where he is a professional beekeeper.