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.J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics at U.C Berkeley, a Research Associate of the NBER, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Chair of Berkeley's Political Economy major.
It's the summer. No regular office hours. Emailing delong@econ.berkeley.edu for an appointment also produces good results.
The Seventeen-Year-Old is going to college next year, which means that I need to think about making more money. (The idea that one might write checks to rather than receive checks from universities is now strange to me.) So I have signed up with the Leigh Speakers' Bureau which also handles, among many others: Chris Anderson; Suzanne Berger; Michael Boskin; Kenneth Courtis; Clive Crook; Bill Emmott; Robert H. Frank; William Goetzmann; Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin; Paul Krugman; Bill McKibben; Paul Romer; Jeffrey Sachs; Robert Shiller;James Surowiecki; Martin Wolf; Adrian Wooldridge.
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.Brad DeLong is a Berkeley economist.
Brad DeLong is a professor in the Department of Economics at U.C. Berkeley; chair of the Berkeley International and Area Studies Political Economy major; a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. From 1993 to 1995 he worked for the U.S. Treasury as a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy.
While in the Clinton administration, reporting to Assistant Secretary Alicia Munnell, he worked on the Clinton Administration's 1993 budget, on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, on macroeconomic policy, on the unsuccessful health care reform effort, and on many other issues.
Before joining the Treasury Department he was Danziger Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He has also been a John M. Olin Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University, and a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at M.I.T.
He has written on, among other topics, the evolution and functioning of the U.S. and other nations' stock markets, the course and determinants of long-run economic growth, the making of economic policy, the changing nature of the American business cycle, and the history of economic thought.
His best work extends from business cycle dynamics through economic growth, behavioral finance, political economy, economic history, international finance to the history of economic thought and other topics, including: "Is Increased Price Flexibility Stabilizing?" "Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare," "Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets," "Equipment Investment and Economic Growth," "Princes and Merchants: European City Growth Before the Industrial Revolution," "Why Does the Stock Market Fluctuate?" "Keynesianism, Pennsylvania-Avenue Style," "America's Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s," "American Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of the Great Depression," "Review of Robert Skidelsky (2000), John Maynard Keynes, volume 3, Fighting for Britain," "Between Meltdown and Moral Hazard: Clinton Administration International Monetary and Financial Policy," "Productivity Growth in the 2000s," "Asset Returns and Economic Growth."
He has taught finance, macroeconomics, economic history, and social theory. He holds a Ph.D. (1987), an M.A. (1984), and a B.A. summa cum laude (1982) from Harvard University.
He was born in Boston, Mass. on June 24, 1960.
You can learn more about his website, visit his home page, visit his principal weblog--"Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal--examine his teaching weblog, look at video clips (and some longer than clips), subscribe to an RSS feed, support his weblogs, examine his academic c.v., email him, examinehis recent footprint on the live web, look at recent things he thought worth saving, or examine recent things he thought worth noting
He is also a member of The Ancient and Hermetic Order of the Shrill--the only sane way to respond to George W. Bush and his administration, and to press coverage of the Bush administration--and a proprietor of Egregious Moderation: A rotisserie-league journal of politics and reality: an egregiously moderate forum for people who want one online source for punchy liberal analysis and evisceration; especially evisceration.