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A brilliant leader lauded as “one of the greatest economic minds of our generation,” Dr. Alan Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Co-Director of Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies, which he founded in 1990.  Dr. Blinder served as a Member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, where he was in charge of the Administration's macroeconomic forecasting as well as worked intensively on budget, international trade, and health care issues.  He was then named as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, representing the Fed at various international meetings, and as a member of the Board's committees on Bank Supervision and Regulation, Consumer and Community Affairs, and Derivative Instruments.

Dr. Blinder is the author or co-author of 17 books, including the textbook Economics: Principles and Policy, from which well over two million college students have learned introductory economics. He has also written scores of scholarly articles on such topics as fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the distribution of income. Dr. Blinder is a regular columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a frequent guest on PBS, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, and elsewhere.

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With an extraordinary career spanning decades in academia, government and business, Dr. Alan Blinder is renowned for his lucid analysis, thought-provoking opinions, and eloquent prose on a wide range of complex economic and political matters.  Erudite and pithy yet colorful and witty, Dr. Blinder offers profound, pragmatic and objective insight on contemporary geo-economic issues including:

  • Globalization and Free Trade
  • Labor Markets including “Off-Shoring”
  • Financial Reform and Regulation
  • Monetary and Fiscal Policy including Political Influence and Impact
ABOUT Alan Blinder, Ph.D.   (+/-)

Distinguished Scholar, Trusted Advisor

Dr. Blinder has taught at Princeton for over four decades -- since 1971--save his stint in U.S. government in the 1990s.  During the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, he was an economic adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry, and he continues to advise numerous Democratic politicians. He also served briefly as Deputy Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office when that agency started in 1975, and testifies frequently before Congress on a wide variety of public policy issues.

Esteemed Economic Visionary and Leader

Dr. Blinder was previously President of the Eastern Economic Association and Vice President of the American Economic Association. He is a member of the board of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.  Dr. Blinder also serves on academic advisory panels for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Hamilton Project.

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