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.) |
| Information at IDEAS/RePEc | |
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]
Education
Johnson earned a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1989 with thesis titled Inflation, intermediation and economic activity,[7] and holds M.A. from the University of Manchester, and his B.A. is from the University of Oxford.[citation needed]
Affiliations
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.[8] 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.
See also
Notes
- ↑ 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?"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Simon Johnson's biography at MIT
- ↑ About the Baseline Scenario
- ↑ "Inflation, intermediation and economic activity". MIT library.
- ↑ List of Center for Economic Policy Research Fellows
Further reading
- Johnson, Simon, "The Quiet Coup", Atlantic Monthly, May 2009
External links
- 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"
- April 16 2010 appearance on Bill Moyer's Journal, joined by colleague James Kwak
- Roberts, Russ (November 28, 2011). "Simon Johnson on the Financial Crisis". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.
| Business positions | ||
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| Preceded by Raghuram Rajan |
IMF Chief Economist 2007–08 |
Succeeded by Olivier Blanchard |
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