Jason Furman

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Jason Furman
New Keynesian economics

Born	c. 1970 (age 41–42)
Nationality	United States
Field	Macroeconomics, Economic policy
Influences	Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Rubin

Jason Furman (born 1970) is an economist. On January 28, 2009, Furman was named Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the administration of President Barack Obama, whom he'd been advising since the latter stages of the 2008 presidential campaign. He has been widely criticized in the past.^[1]

[edit] Life and career

Furman's research and policy focus includes the subjects of taxes, health care, and the U.S. Social Security program. Furman's qualified defense of Wal-Mart's business model provoked criticism from some labor organizations when he joined Obama's 2008 campaign.

In 1996, while he was a graduate student at Harvard, Furman was hired by economist Joseph Stiglitz to serve a one-year stint as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration and on staff of the Council of Economic Advisers. He later worked with Stiglitz at the World Bank. Furman was involved to varying degrees with the Presidential campaigns of Al Gore and General Wesley Clark. In 2004, he took a position as Director of Economic Policy for the John Kerry Presidential campaign in 2004.

Furman received an MSc from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Also at Harvard, Furman earned a bachelor's in social studies and a master's in government. He has worked with former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.

In recent years, Furman has worked as a budget expert at the Brookings Institution. There, he directed the Hamilton Project, an economic policy research group that develops policy proposals to achieve shared economic growth.^[2]

He was a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.^[3] He has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities.

He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Eve Gerber, and their two children, Henry and Louisa. Gail Furman, Furman's mother, heads a family foundation ("The Furman Foundation, Inc.") that funds mostly left-leaning nonprofit groups.^[4]

His hobbies include juggling.

Furman is often parodied on the Glenn Beck Program as Obama advisor "Honkey Whitesville," a recurring call-in guest portrayed by Steve Burguiere.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Writings at the Brookings Institution
Jason Furman at WhoRunsGov at The Washington Post
Appearances on C-SPAN
Jason Furman on Charlie Rose
Jason Furman collected news and commentary at The New York Times
Works by or about Jason Furman in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

v t e Keynesians

Founder	John Maynard Keynes

Neo-Keynesians	Alvin Hansen John Hicks James Meade Roy Harrod William Phillips Trygve Haavelmo Paul Samuelson James Tobin Franco Modigliani James Duesenberry William Baumol Don Patinkin Lloyd Metzler Robert Eisner Arthur Melvin Okun Robert Mundell Lawrence Klein Myron J. Gordon William Poole

Post Keynesians	Paul Davidson Joan Robinson Richard Kahn Michał Kalecki Abba P. Lerner Nicholas Kaldor Evsey Domar Hyman Minsky Jan Kregel Sidney Weintraub Geoff Harcourt Victoria Chick G. L. S. Shackle Steve Keen Marc Lavoie Basil Moore

New Keynesians	Edmund Phelps George Akerlof Stanley Fischer Olivier Blanchard Alan Blinder John B. Taylor Robert J. Gordon Joseph Stiglitz Robert Shiller Mark Gertler Maurice Obstfeld Paul Krugman Kenneth Rogoff Ben Bernanke Lawrence Summers Julio Rotemberg Michael Woodford Nobuhiro Kiyotaki David Romer N. Gregory Mankiw Nouriel Roubini Andrei Shleifer Jordi Galí Marc Melitz

Obama Administration personnel

Cabinet and cabinet-level

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
Secretary of State	Hillary Clinton	2009–	Secretary of Treasury	Timothy Geithner	2009–
Secretary of Defense	Leon Panetta	2011–	Attorney General	Eric Holder	2009–
Secretary of the Interior	Ken Salazar	2009–	Secretary of Agriculture	Tom Vilsack	2009–
Secretary of Commerce	John Bryson	2011–	Secretary of Labor	Hilda Solis	2009–
Secretary of Health and Human Services	Kathleen Sebelius	2009–	Secretary of Education Secretary of Transportation	Arne Duncan Ray LaHood	2009– 2009–
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Shaun Donovan	2009–	Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Eric Shinseki	2009–
Secretary of Energy	Steven Chu	2009–	Secretary of Homeland Security	Janet Napolitano	2009–

Vice President	Joe Biden	2009–	White House Chief of Staff	Jacob Lew	2012–
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Vacant	2012–	Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Lisa Jackson	2009–
Ambassador to the United Nations Trade Representative	Susan Rice Ron Kirk	2009– 2009–	Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers	Austan Goolsbee	2010–

Below solid line: Granted Cabinet rank although not automatically part of the Cabinet. See also: Confirmations of Barack Obama's Cabinet

Executive Office of the President

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
White House Chief of Staff White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy	Rahm Emanuel Pete Rouse William M. Daley Jacob Lew Mona Sutphen Nancy-Ann DeParle	2009–2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012- 2009-2011 2011-	National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Advisor	Jim Jones Tom Donilon Thomas E. Donilon Denis McDonough	2009–2010 2010- 2009–2010 2010-
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Senior Advisor to the President Deputy Senior Advisor to the President Counselor to the President	Jim Messina Alyssa Mastromonaco David Axelrod David Plouffe Stephanie Cutter Pete Rouse	2009–2011 2011- 2009–2011 2011- 2011- 2009-	Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications	Douglas Lute^† Ben Rhodes	2009– 2009–
Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement	Valerie Jarrett	2009–	Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security	John O. Brennan	2009–
Director of Public Engagement	Christina Tchen Jon Carson	2009–2011 2011--	Deputy National Security Advisor and NSC Chief of Staff	Denis McDonough Brooke Anderson	2009-2010 2011-
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs	Cecilia Muñoz	2009–	White House Communications Director	Daniel Pfeiffer	2009-
Director, National Economic Council	Lawrence Summers Gene Sperling	2009–2010 2011-	Deputy White House Communications Director White House Press Secretary	Jennifer Psaki Robert Gibbs Jay Carney	2009– 2009–2011 2011-
Deputy Director, National Economic Council	Diana Farrell	2009–	Deputy Press Secretary	Bill Burton	2009–
Deputy Director, National Economic Council Deputy Director, National Economic Council	Jason Furman Brian Deese	2009– 2011-	Director of Special Projects	Stephanie Cutter	2010-2011
Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board	Paul Volcker	2009–	Director of Speechwriting	Jon Favreau	2009–
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors	Christina Romer Austan Goolsbee	2009–2010 2010-	White House Counsel Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Robert Bauer Kathryn Ruemmler Phil Schiliro Rob Nabors	2009–2011 2011- 2009–2011 2011-
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Katharine Abraham	2011-	Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Lisa Konwinski	2009–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Cecilia Rouse	2009–	Executive Clerk	George T. Saunders^†	2009–
Director, Office of Management and Budget	Peter Orszag Jacob Lew	2009–2010 2010–2012	Director, Office of Political Affairs Chief Technology Officer	Patrick Gaspard Aneesh Chopra	2009–2011 2009–
Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Zients	2009–	Chief Information Officer Director, Office of Presidential Personnel	Steven VanRoekel Nancy Hogan	2011– 2010–
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Liebman Heather Higginbottom*	2010–2010 2011-	Director of Scheduling and Advance Director, White House Military Office	Alyssa Mastromonaco Danielle Crutchfield George D. Mulligan, Jr.	2009–2011 2011- 2009–
United States Trade Representative	Ron Kirk	2009–	Cabinet Secretary	Chris Lu	2009–
Director, Domestic Policy Council	Melody Barnes	2009–	Deputy Cabinet Secretary	Liz Sears Smith	2009–
Deputy Director, Domestic Policy Council	Heather Higginbottom Mark Zuckerman	2009–2011 2011-	Staff Secretary	Lisa Brown	2009–
Director, Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships	Joshua DuBois	2009–	Director, Office of Management and Administration	Bradley Kiley	2009–
Director, Office of Health Reform	Nancy DeParle	2009–2011	Director, Oval Office Operations	Micaela Fernandez	2009–
Deputy Director, Office of Health Reform	Jeanne Lambrew	2009–	Personal Aide to the President	Reggie Love	2009–
Director, Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy	Carol Browner	2009–2011	Personal Secretary to the President	Katie Johnson Anita Decker	2009–2011 2011-
Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change	Heather Zichal	2009–	Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the President	Eugene Kang	2009–
Director, Council on Environmental Quality Director, Office of National AIDS Policy	Nancy Sutley Jeffrey Crowley	2009– 2009–	Chief of Staff to the First Lady	Jackie Norris Susan Sher Christina Tchen	2009 2009–2010 2011-
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy	Gil Kerlikowske	2009–	White House Social Secretary	Desirée Rogers Julianna Smoot Jeremy Bernard	2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–
Director, Office of Urban Affairs Policy	Adolfo Carrión, Jr.	2009–	Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy	John Holdren	2009–

^*Senate-confirmation pending. ^†Remained from previous administration (s).

Office of the Vice President

Position	Appointee	Position	Appointee
Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Bruce Reed	Chief of Staff to the Second Lady	Catherine Russell
Counsel to the Vice President	Cynthia Hogan	Director of Administration for the Office of the Vice President	Moises Vela
Counselor to the Vice President	Mike Donilon	Domestic Policy Adviser to the Vice President	Terrell McSweeny
Assistant to the Vice President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison	Evan Ryan	Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President	Jared Bernstein
Assistant to the Vice President and Director of Communications	Jay Carney	Press Secretary to the Vice President	Elizabeth Alexander
Deputy Chief of Staff to the Vice President	Alan Hoffman	Deputy Press Secretary to the Vice President	Annie Tomasini
Deputy National Security Adviser to the Vice President	Brian McKeon	Director of Legislative Affairs	Sudafi Henry
Residence Manager and Social Secretary for the Vice President and Second Lady	Carlos Elizondo	Director of Communications for the Second Lady	Courtney O’Donnell
National Security Adviser to the Vice President	Tony Blinken