Biography

Paul Romer is Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business and Director of its Urbanization Project. The Urbanization Project addresses a truly historic challenge and opportunity: welcoming an additional 3 - 5 billion people to urban life in less than a century. The Project's first initiative helps existing cities plan for expansion. Its second initiative fosters the creation of entirely new cities because history shows that a new city offers a uniquely important opportunity to implement systemic social reform and speed up progress.

Prior to joining Stern, Romer taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where he took an entrepreneurial detour to start Aplia, an education technology company dedicated to increasing student effort and engagement. Romer is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2002, he received the Recktenwald Prize for his work on the role of ideas in sustaining economic growth.

Awards & Appointments

Center for Global Development	Fellow	2010
	Horst Claus Recktenwald Prize in Economics	2002
American Academy of Arts and Sciences	Fellow	2000
Stanford Business School	Distinguished Teaching Award	1999
American Economics Association	Executive Council Member	1996
Econometric Society	Fellow	1990
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences	Fellow	1989
Sloan Foundation	Fellow	1988
National Bureau of Economic Research	Research Associate	1987

Selected Publications

P. Romer and C. Jones (2010)
The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital
Forthcoming American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2010

P. Romer (1996)
Preferences, Promises, and the Politics of Entitlement
Chapter 7 from Individual and Social Responsibility

P. Romer (1994)
New Goods, Old Theory, and the Welfare Costs of Trade Restrictions
Journal of Development Economics, No. 43 (1994), pp. 5-38

P. Romer (1990)
Endogenous Technological Change
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, No. 5

P. Romer (1986)
Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 94, No. 5 (Oct. 1986), pp. 1002-1037