AMHERST -- Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and a columnist for The New York Times, will speak Thursday, Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. at the University of Massachusetts as the university's annual Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture.

Krugman's talk at the Mullins Center -- "What's the Matter with Economics?" -- is expected to be his explanation of how macroeconomics, the study of national and regional economies, is a very good predictor of world events at least since the financial crisis of 2008-09.

Tickets, free of charge, are available at the Mullins Center Box Office. Tickets also can be ordered online at www.mullinscenter.com/events/detail/economics-gamble-lecture for a $3 per ticket service fee.

Parking is available at the Mullins Center for $10, according to the release.

Krugman received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008 for his work on international trade theory.

He's been an op-ed columnist at the New York Times since 1999, and his column also appears in The Republican.