Robin Elizabeth Wells (born 1959)[1] is an American economist.

[3] Wells did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[2] Wells is the co-author of several economics books with her husband, economist Paul Krugman, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, that rank among the top selling economics textbooks used in U.S. colleges today.

[citation needed] For The Occupy Handbook, Wells served as guest editor and contributed an original article.

She is a frequent writer for The Guardian online, has published articles in economics journals, and has blogged for The Huffington Post.