Simon Johnson (economist)
| Born | January 16, 1963 |
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| Nationality | British |
| Field | political economy, development economics |
| Alma mater | MIT (Ph.D.) University of Manchester (M.A.) University of Oxford (B.A.) |
Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963)[1] is a British American economist. He is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management[2] and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[3] He has held a wide variety of academic and policy-related positions, including Professor of Economics at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.[4] From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he was Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.[5]
He is author, with James Kwak, of the 2010 book 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (ISBN 978-0307379054), with whom he has also co-founded and regularly contributes to the economics blog The Baseline Scenario.[6]
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Education [edit]
Johnson holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, an M.A. from the University of Manchester, and his B.A. is from the University of Oxford.[citation needed]
Affiliations [edit]
Among other positions he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.[7] He is also a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers.[5] From 2006 to 2007 he was a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, where he is currently a senior fellow.[5] He is on the editorial board of four academic economics journals.[5] He has contributed to Project Syndicate since 2007.
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Notes [edit]
- ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ^ Interview with Terry Gross on NPR
- ^ Simon Johnson's biography at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
- ^ LA Times, 29 November 1991, "Muscovites: Want Shares In Boeing For 44 ½?"
- ^ a b c d Simon Johnson's biography at MIT
- ^ About the Baseline Scenario
- ^ List of Center for Economic Policy Research Fellows
Further reading [edit]
- Johnson, Simon, "The Quiet Coup", Atlantic Monthly, May 2009
External links [edit]
- Faculty profile at MIT
- Johnson's co-blog at MIT
- Profile at the International Monetary Fund
- IDEAS and EconPapers from Research Papers in Economics/RePEc
- Column archive at Project Syndicate
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Works by or about Simon Johnson (economist) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Video (with audio-only available) of conversation with Johnson about economic issues on Bloggingheads.tv
- Simon Johnson's economics blog "Baseline Scenario"
- Interview with BBC Peter Day's World of Business - Podcast
- MIT video presentation of "13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown"
- [http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04162010/profile.html April 16 2010 appearance on Bill Moyer's Journal, joined by colleague James Kwak
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| Preceded by Raghuram Rajan |
IMF Chief Economist 2007–08 |
Succeeded by Olivier Blanchard |
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- 1963 births
- American academics
- American economists
- American educators
- British academics
- British economists
- British educators
- British emigrants to the United States
- Duke University faculty
- Living people
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- People associated with the University of Manchester
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- MIT Sloan School of Management faculty
