PAUL ROMER

Paul Romer is a University Professor at Boston College and directs its new Center for the Economics of Ideas. In 2018, he was a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics. The work recognized by the prize presented an "economics of ideas" that differs in a fundamental way from the traditional economics of scarce physical objects... Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millions and billions; science; technology; economic development; long-term growth; code as language.