An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics.
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.
Nicholas Gregory Mankiw is an American macroeconomist who is currently the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Mankiw is best known in academia for his work on New Keynesian economics.
Martin Stuart Feldstein was an American economist. He was the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He served as president and chief executive officer of the NBER from 1978 to 2008. From 1982 to 1984,Feldstein served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and as chief economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan. Feldstein was also a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body the Group of Thirty from 2003.
Omicron Delta Epsilon is an international honor society in the field of economics,formed from the merger of Omicron Delta Gamma and Omicron Chi Epsilon,in 1963. Its board of trustees includes well-known economists such as Robert Lucas,Paul Romer,and Robert Solow. ODE is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies;the ACHS indicates that ODE inducts approximately 4,000 collegiate members each year and has more than 100,000 living lifetime members. There are approximately 700 active ODE chapters worldwide. New members consist of undergraduate and graduate students,as well as college and university faculty;the academic achievement required to obtain membership for students can be raised by individual chapters,as well as the ability to run for office or wear honors cords during graduation. It publishes an academic journal entitled The American Economist twice each year.
Peter Bain Kenen was an American economist,who was the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University,and senior fellow in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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.
Marina von Neumann Whitman is an American economist,writer and former automobile executive. She is a professor of business administration and public policy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business as well as The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Alan Bennett Krueger was an American economist who was the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy,nominated by President Barack Obama,from May 2009 to October 2010,when he returned to Princeton. He was nominated in 2011 by Obama as chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers,and served in that office from November 2011 to August 2013. He was among the 50 highest ranked economists in the world according to Research Papers in Economics.
David Frantz Bradford was a prominent American economist and professor of economics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton 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.
Christina Duckworth Romer is the Class of 1957 Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California,Berkeley and a former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration. She resigned from her role on the Council of Economic Advisers on September 3,2010.
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.
Emmanuel Farhi was a French economist and professor of economics at Harvard University. His research focused on macroeconomics,taxation and finance. He was a member of the French Economic Analysis Council to the French Prime Minister from 2010 to 2012.
Karen Dynan is an American economist who is Professor of the Practice of Economics at Harvard University and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She previously served as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the United States Department of the Treasury,having been nominated to that position by President Barack Obama in August 2013 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2014. From 2009 to 2013,Dr. Dynan was the Vice President and Co-director of the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings,she served on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board for 17 years. Dr. Dynan is an expert on macroeconomic policy,consumer behavior,household finance,and housing policy.
Mikhail Golosov is a Belarusian-American economist currently the Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He previously served as Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
Atif Rehman Mian is a Pakistani-American economist who serves as the John H. Laporte Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics,Public Policy,and Finance at Princeton University,and as the Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021,and was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2021.
The Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance (JRC) is a leading research center at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) of Princeton University. Founded in 2011,the JRC primarily promotes research on public policy as it relates to financial markets and macroeconomics. The center has also expanded its research and teaching to multiple disciplines,including economics,operations research,political science,history,and ethics.
The 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was divided equally between the American economists Ben S. Bernanke,Douglas W. Diamond,and Philip H. Dybvig "for research on banks and financial crises" on 10 October 2022. The award was established in 1968 by an endowment "in perpetuity" from Sweden's central bank,Sveriges Riksbank,to commemorate the bank's 300th anniversary. Laureates in the Memorial Prize in Economics are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Nobel Committee announced the reason behind their recognition,stating:
"This year’s laureates in the Economic Sciences,Ben Bernanke,Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig,have significantly improved our understanding of the role of banks in the economy,particularly during financial crises. An important finding in their research is why avoiding bank collapses is vital."
