Krugman writes the introduction to new edition of Foundation Trilogy

https://webspace.princeton.edu/users/pkrugman/FDT%20intro.pdf

There are certain novels that can shape a teenage boy’s life. For
some, it’s Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged; for others it’s Tolkien’s
The Lord of the Rings. As a widely quoted internet meme says,
the unrealistic fantasy world portrayed in one of those books
can warp a young man’s character forever; the other book is
about orcs. But for me, of course, it was neither. My Book—
the one that has stayed with me for four and a half decades—
is Asimov’s ‘Foundation Trilogy’, written when Asimov was
barely out of his teens himself. I didn’t grow up wanting to be
a square-jawed individualist or join a heroic quest; I grew up
wanting to be Hari Seldon, using my understanding of the
mathematics of human behavior to save civilization.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/seldon-seen/

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This is too cool. I am also a Foundation trilogy nut. And Krugman is of course my favorite psychohistorian, ooops, I mean economist.