Austan Goolsbee
Austan D. Goolsbee is an economist and is currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation[1], Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts[2], and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office.[3] He has been Barack Obama's economic advisor since Obama's successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois. He is the lead economic advisor to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign [4] and is known as a centrist.[5] He was interviewed in January 2008 about the Obama economic plan on tax cuts, deficits and trade policies.[6]
Biography
His educational degrees are: B.A. summa cum laude (economics), Yale University, 1991; M.A. (economics), Yale University, 1991; Ph.D. (economics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. He was an Alfred Sloan Fellow (2000-02) and Fulbright scholar (2006-07).[7] [8]
Goolsbee married Robin Winters on November 1, 1997. She was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company at the time and earlier the director of business development at MTV International.[9] They have three children.
As a high school student at Milton Academy, a prestigious New England preparatory school, Goolsbee became one of the most decorated competitive speakers in the nation. In 1987, he became the first extemporaneous speaking competitor to go through an entire year of competitions placing only first. This included winning the NCFL national championship in extemporaneous speaking for the second time and winning the National Forensics League's national championship in international extemporaneous speaking as well as placing second in the nation in original oratory.
As a student at Yale he debated on the APDA circuit. In 1990 he and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for National Debate Team of the Year. He and partner John V. Wertheim placed second at the national championship. In 1991, he and partner David Gray were the National Debate Team of the Year. Goolsbee finished as the 3rd best speaker at the World Debate Championships in Toronto.
He later served as coach to the M.I.T. debate team and the University of Chicago debate society.
His research focuses on the Internet, the new economy, government policy, and taxes. He currently teaches a class on economics and policy in the telecom, media and technology industries.
In April 2006, Goolsbee began writing for the Economic Scene column in the New York Times. He has also appeared in their Economic View column. Prior to that he wrote the Dismal Science column for Slate.com, for which he won the 2006 Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism. He has many published papers in various peer-reviewed journals. [10]
He spoke in favor of the Latke in the 2007 The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate.
Controversy
Goolsbee met with Canadian officials in March to discuss NAFTA and tanked Obama's nomination.
References
- ^ index _Goolsbee
- ^ Austan Goolsbee
- ^ Congressional Budget Office - Panel of Economic Advisers
- ^ The Advisers Are Writing Our Future New York Times, April 18, 2007.
- ^ Seeking Clues to Obamanomics, Deborah Solomon, Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2007
- ^ Obama's economic adviser on the plan, Doug Krizner interviews Austan Goolsbee, Marketplace, January 31, 2008
- ^ http://gsbportal.chicagogsb.edu/portal//server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_0_314_215_0_43/http%3B/gsbportal.chicagogsb.edu/Facultycourse/Portlet/FacultyDetail.aspx?&min_year=20064&max_year=20073&person_id=406066
- ^ vitae.htm
- ^ WEDDINGS; Robin Winters and Austan Goolsbee - New York Times
- ^ 40 under 40, 2006Chicago Business
External links
- University of Chicago official faculty website
- Chicago GSB Faculty profile
- University of Chicago Experts profile
- Economic View: Is the New Supply Side Better Than the Old? Austan Goolsbee, New York Times, January 20, 2008.
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