Robin Wells

• Name — Robin Elizabeth Wells

• Born — 1959

• Spouse — Paul Krugman

• Institution — * Stanford Graduate School of Business

• MIT Department of Economics

• Princeton University Department of Economics

• Field — * International finance

• Contract theory

• Alma Mater — * University of Chicago (BA)

• University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

Robin Elizabeth Wells (born 1959) is an American economist. She is the co-author of several economics texts, mostly with her husband Paul Krugman.

Wells received her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Wells did 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, Stanford University, MIT, and Princeton University.

Wells has co-authored several economics books with her husband, economist Paul Krugman, including Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, which rank among the top selling economics textbooks used in U.S. colleges today. For The Occupy Handbook, 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 Huffington Post. With her husband, she has co-authored articles and book reviews for The New York Review of Books. Wells teaches Forrest Yoga in Princeton, New Jersey.

• Economics: European Edition (Spring 2007), Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, and Kathryn Graddy.

• Macroeconomics (February 2006), Paul Krugman and Robin Wells.

• Economics (December 2005), Paul Krugman and Robin Wells.

• Microeconomics (March 2004), Paul Krugman and Robin Wells.

• The Occupy Handbook (April 2012), edited by Janet Byrne.