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Life and career

Wells received her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.Economics, 1st Edition by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, Worth Publishers; 1st edition (December 28, 2005) After obtaining her

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degree in economics from UC Berkeley, Wells obtained a post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught or done research at the University of Michigan, the University of Southampton,

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, MIT, and Princeton University. Wells is the co-author of several economics books with her husband, economist Paul Krugman, ''Macroeconomics'' and ''Microeconomics'', that rank in the top selling economics textbooks used in U.S. colleges today. For ''

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'', Wells served as guest editor and contributed an original article. She is a frequent writer for ''The Guardian'' online, has published articles in economics journals, and has blogged for ''The

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''. With her husband, she has co-authored both articles and book reviews for '' The New York Review of Books''. Wells teaches Forrest Yoga in Princeton, New Jersey.

Selected bibliography

*''Economics: European Edition'' (Spring 2007), Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, and Kathryn Graddy. *''Macroeconomics'' (February 2006), Paul Krugman and Robin Wells.
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(December 2005), Paul Krugman and Robin Wells. *''Microeconomics'' (March 2004), Paul Krugman and Robin Wells. *''The Occupy Handbook'' (April 2012), edited by Janet Byrne.

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