Arthur Betz Laffer is an American economist and author who first gained prominence during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981–1989). Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve,an illustration of the theory that there exists some tax rate between 0% and 100% that will result in maximum tax revenue for government. In certain circumstances,this would allow governments to cut taxes,and simultaneously increase revenue and economic growth.
Robert Glenn Hubbard is an American economist and academic. He served as the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business from 2004 to 2019,where he remains the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics. On September 13,2018,he announced that he would retire from his position after his contract expired on June 30,2019. Hubbard previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 1991 to 1993,and as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2003.
Austan Dean Goolsbee is an American economist and writer. He is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Goolsbee formerly served as the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He was the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2010 to 2011 and a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet. He served as a member of the Chicago Board of Education from 2018 to 2019.
Peter Richard Orszag is an American business executive and former government official. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Lazard. Announced as Lazard’s incoming CEO on May 26,2023,he assumed the role on October 1,2023,also joining the board.
David Frantz Bradford was a prominent American economist and professor of economics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
George Jesus Borjas is a Cuban-American economist and the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has been described as "America’s leading immigration economist" and "the leading sceptic of immigration among economists". Borjas has published a number of studies that conclude that low-skilled immigration adversely affects low-skilled natives,a proposition that is debated among economists.
Jonathan Holmes Gruber is an American professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,where he has taught since 1992. He is also the director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research,where he is a research associate. An associate editor of both the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Health Economics,Gruber has been heavily involved in crafting public health policy.
Kevin Allen Hassett is an American economist who is a former Senior Advisor and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019. He coauthored Dow 36,000,published in 1999,which argued that the stock market was about to have a massive swing upward and would reach 36,000 by 2004. Shortly thereafter,the dot-com bubble burst,causing a massive decline in stock market prices. The Dow did not reach 36,000 until late 2021.
Tomas J. Philipson is a Swedish-born American economist who served as the Acting Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump administration. He departed from the position and the Council at the end of June,2020,to return to the University of Chicago. He holds the Daniel Levin Chair in Public Policy at the University of Chicago,with posts in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies,Department of Economics,and the Law School. He was a Director of the Becker Friedman Institute at the university.
Jason Furman is an American economist and professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. On June 10,2013,Furman was named by President Barack Obama as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Furman has also served as the deputy director of the U.S. National Economic Council,which followed his role as an advisor for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign.
Carlos E. Bonilla was an American lobbyist,an advisor on economic policy to U.S. president George W. Bush,and senior vice president at The Washington Group,a lobbying firm.
David Hibbard Romer is an American economist,the Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy at the University of California,Berkeley,and the author of a standard textbook in graduate macroeconomics as well as many influential economic papers,particularly in the area of New Keynesian economics. He is also the husband and close collaborator of Council of Economic Advisers former Chairwoman Christina Romer.
Jared Bernstein is an American government official who is the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers. He is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to 2011,Bernstein was the chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama administration. In 2008,Michael D. Shear described Bernstein as a progressive and "a strong advocate for workers".
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) is a non-profit public policy organization based in Washington,D.C. that addresses federal budget and fiscal issues. It was founded in 1981 by former United States Representative Robert Giaimo (D-CT) and United States Senator Henry Bellmon (R-OK),and its board of directors includes past heads of the House and Senate Budget Committees,the Congressional Budget Office,the Office of Management and Budget,and the Government Accountability Office.
Douglas William Elmendorf is an American economist who is the dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He previously served as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from 2009 to 2015. He was a Brookings Institution senior fellow from 2007 to 2009,and briefly in 2015 following his time at the CBO,and was a director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings.
The economic impact of illegal immigration to the United States is challenging to measure and politically contentious. Research shows that unauthorized immigrants increase the size of the U.S. economy/contribute to economic growth,enhance the welfare of natives,contribute more in tax revenue than they collect,reduce American firms' incentives to offshore jobs and import foreign-produced goods,and benefit consumers by reducing the prices of goods and services.
Leonard "Len" E. Burman is an American economist,tax policy expert,and author. He is currently an institute fellow at the Urban Institute,the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University,and a senior research associate at Syracuse University's Center for Policy Research. He is,with Joel Slemrod,the author of Taxes in America:What Everyone Needs to Know. Burman is also a fellow of National Academy of Public Administration.
Timothy Joseph Kane is an American economist and president and founder of The American Lyceum,a non-profit organization that seeks to promote solution-focused,civic debate. Kane was the J-P Conte research fellow at the Hoover Institution,where he specialized in immigration reform. He is a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer with two overseas tours of duty. After leaving the service,Kane explored a career in start-up technology firms while pursuing a Ph.D. in economics. After working as a teaching professor of economics,Kane served on the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and was director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at The Heritage Foundation. Kane was also an editor of the 2007 Index of Economic Freedom,co-published by The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation,and is the author of the book Bleeding Talent:How the U.S. Military Mismanages Great Leaders and Why It's Time for a Revolution. Kane co-authored the book,Balance:The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America with Glenn Hubbard. Kane's latest book is The Immigrant Superpower:How Brains,Brawn,and Bravery Make America Stronger.
Stephen T. Parente is an American health economist. He currently serves as a Professor of Finance and the Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair at the Carlson School of Management and Finance at the University of Minnesota. In April 2017,President Donald Trump nominated Parente to be Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
