Alan S. Blinder
| Alan Blinder | |
|---|---|
| 15th Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve System | |
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In office June 27, 1994 – January 31, 1996 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | David Mullins |
| Succeeded by | Alice Rivlin |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 14, 1945 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University London School of Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition |
New Keynesian economics |
| Doctoral advisor |
Robert Solow |
| Doctoral students |
Julio Rotemberg |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Alan Stuart Blinder (born October 14, 1945) is an American economist. He serves at Princeton University as the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs in the Economics Department, and vice chairman of The Observatory Group. He founded Princeton’s Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies in 1990. Since 1978 he has been a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a co-founder and a vice chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network, LLC. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc, and is "considered one of the great economic minds of his generation."
Blinder served on President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers (July 27, 1993 – June 26, 1994), and as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from June 27, 1994, to January 31, 1996. Blinder's recent academic work has focused particularly on monetary policy and central banking, as well as the "offshoring" of jobs, and his writing for lay audiences has been published primarily but not exclusively in New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, where he now writes a regular monthly op-ed column. His latest book is After the Music Stopped, published by Penguin in January 2013.
Blinder was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Syosset High School in Syosset, New York. Blinder received his undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton, graduating summa cum laude in 1967. He subsequently gained an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics (1968) and then received his doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. He was advised by Robert Solow.
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