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Alan S. Blinder

Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Alan S. Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author/ co-author of 17 books, including the textbook Economics: Principles and Policy (with William J. Baumol), now in its 12th edition, from which well over two and a half million college students have learned introductory economics. He has written scores of scholarly articles on such topics as fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the distribution of income. He appears frequently on PBS, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, and elsewhere. Dr. Blinder was a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers, and continues to advise numerous Democratic politicians.

Issues: Bank Bail Out, Bank Bonuses, Banking and Finance, Budget and Tax Policy, Business, Corporate Incentives, Economic Forecasting, Economic Mobility, Economic Theory, Fannie/Freddie, Federal Budget, Financial Markets, Housing Market Collapse, Jobs, Keynes v. Friedman, Labor Force, Middle Class, Monetary Policy, National Debt, Payroll Taxes, Ratings Agencies, Securitization, Service Economy, Small Business, Social Insurance, Social Investment, Social Security, The Federal Reserve, Too Big To Fail, Unemployment Insurance

Experience:

• Vice Chairman, Promontory Interfinancial Network
• Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
• President, Eastern Economic Association, 2005-2006
• Member, Monetary Policy Panel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2005-2009
• Senior Fellow, FDIC Center for Financial Research, 2003-2008
• Board Member, AFL-CIO Center for Working Capital, 1999-2005
• Vice President, American Economic Association
• Vice Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1994-1996
• Board of Governors Committee on Bank Supervision and Regulation, Consumer and Community Affairs, and Derivative Instruments
• Council of Economic Advisers, Clinton Administration, January 1993 – January 1996
• Deputy Assistant Director, Congressional Budget Office, 1975

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971
M.Sc., Economics, London School of Economics, 1968
A.B., Economics, Princeton University, 1967

Books:

Alan S. Blinder. After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead. The Penguin Press, January 24th, 2013.

Alan S. Blinder. Offshoring of American Jobs: What Response from U.S. Economic Policy?, (MIT Press, 2009 with Jagdish Bhagwati)

Alan S. Blinder. The Quiet Revolution: Central Banking Goes Modern, Yale University Press, 2004. (Chinese edition, 2006, by China Financial Publishing House; Japanese translation, 2008, Nikkei Publishing)

Alan S. Blinder. Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, and Consequences, Russell Sage Foundation, 2003 (with William J. Baumol and Edward N. Wolff)