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Paul Krugman, a Rare card
Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 92
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 188
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 300,000
Power 188 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Paul Krugman quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Paul Krugman card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was a ______ for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024.
Answer
columnist. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024. From the Paul Krugman article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography.
Answer
2000s. In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography. From the Paul Krugman article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
C. V. Raman. C. V. Raman 460,000 · Paul Krugman 300,000 · Emmy Noether 210,000 · Christian ethics 41,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024.
- In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography.
- The Prize Committee cited Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic distribution of economic activity, by examining the effects of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Paul Krugman article was read about 300,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 92 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Paul Krugman (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The White House, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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