Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here are your hosts.

John Joseph Adams and David Barr-Kirtley.

Hi, this is Dave.

And this is Dave. And this is John.

And welcome to episode 61 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Paul Krugman.

He's a New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist and also the author of several books including the conscience of a liberal and to end this depression now.

He's also as you'll hear a hardcore science fiction fan.

Then stick around after the interview as guest geek Sarah Brand joins us to discuss economics

and corporations in fantasy and science fiction.

All right, so let's get to our interview.

All right, so we're here with Paul Krugman.

Welcome to the show.

Hi there.

Okay, so you've said that you recently agreed to write a new introduction

for Isaac Asimov's Foundation series,

so what will you be talking about in your introduction?

So the story, the background story is I read Foundation back when I was in high school, when I was a teenager, and thought about the psychohistorians

who saved Galactic Civilization through their understanding of the laws of society and said,

I want to be one of those guys.

And economics was as close as I could get.

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