Selected Columnists for The Economists' Voice include:
George Akerlof
George Akerlof is one of the founders of Information Economics, for which he shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. He teaches at UC Berkeley and has recently focused on Behavioral Economics, analyzing such topics as cognitive dissonance, near-rationality, and the economics of caring not only about what you do and what you consume but who you are. Ph.D. MIT, 1966.
Ian Ayres
Ian Ayres is Professor of Law and Business, Yale University. He is the author of numerous academic articles and books as well as Why Not?: How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small; a commentator on public radio's Marketplace; and a columnist at Forbes. Ph.D. MIT, 1988; J.D. Yale, 1986; B.A., Yale, 1981.
Lucian Bebchuk
Lucian Arye Bebchuk is Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance at Harvard Law School, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Director of the Harvard's Program on Corporate Governance. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bebchuk has made important contributions to the study of corporate governance, law and finance, law and economics, and bankruptcy. Ph.D., SJD, LLM, and M.A., Harvard; LL.B., University of Tel-Aviv; B.A. University of Haifa.
Gary Becker
Gary Becker won the Nobel Prize in 1992 and is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is internationally recognized for pioneering work on human capital, discrimination, the economic analysis of crime, and the economics of the family. A.B., Princeton, 1951; A.M., 1952, Ph.D., 1955, University of Chicago.
Jagdish Bhagwati
Jagdish Bhagwati is a University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was Economic Policy Adviser to the Director General, GATT (1991-93) and is currently in UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's High-level Advisory Group of the NEPAD process in Africa. Author of hundreds of articles and fifty volumes, he is one of the world's foremost international trade theorists. B. Com., Bombay, 1954; M.A., Cambridge, l956; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967.
Rebecca M. Blank
Rebecca M. Blank is Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs in the Obama administration, as well as a Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan. From 1997-1999 she served as a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Her research focuses on the interaction between the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty programs, and the behavior and well-being of low-income families. The author of numerous books, she is a faculty affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the co-director of the National Poverty Center at the Ford School. Ph.D. MIT.
Michael J. Boskin
Michael J. Boskin is a Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He chaired the President's Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-1993, and later the highly influential Commission on the CPI. Boskin is internationally recognized for over one hundred books and articles on economic growth and public finance. B.A., Chancellor's Award as outstanding undergraduate, 1967; M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1971; UC Berkeley.
J. Bradford DeLong
Brad DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former deputy assistant secretary for economic policy in the United States Treasury. He tries to maintain an uneasy balance in his interests between economic history, macroeconomics, and other topics. Ph.D., Harvard, 1987; B.A., Harvard, 1982.
John J. Donohue III
John J. Donohue III is the Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor at Yale Law School, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Donohue's recent work has used large-scale statistical studies to estimate the causal impact of law and public policy in a wide range of areas from civil rights and employment discrimination law to school funding and crime control. He is the empirical editor of the American Law and Economics Review. Ph.D., Yale, 1986; J.D., Harvard, 1977; B.A., Hamilton College, 1974.
Aaron S. Edlin
Aaron Edlin holds the Richard W. Jennings Endowed Chair and is Professor of economics and of law at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is co-author with P. Areeda and L. Kaplow of the leading antitrust casebook. He was formerly the senior economist covering regulation, antitrust, and industrial organization at the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and has taught or held research positions at Yale, Stanford, and Columbia. Ph.D., J.D, Stanford, 1993; A.B., Princeton, 1988.
Bruno Frey
Bruno Frey is a Professor of economics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research team has pioneered using economics to study people's happiness, intrinsic motivation, procedural utility, pro-social behavior, and direct democracy. He is author of more than a dozen books and many articles in academic journals in economics and other social sciences. Ph.D. University of Basel, 1962; Honorary Doctorates, University of Goeteborg and University of St. Gallen.
Robert Hahn
Robert Hahn is a senior visiting fellow at the Smith School at Oxford and a senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. He is also co-founder of the Community Preparatory School—an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential. Ph.D., Caltech, 1981.
R. Glenn Hubbard
R. Glenn Hubbard is Dean of Columbia Business School, Director of the Program on Tax Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, and professor of economics and finance at Columbia University. He served as the first chairman of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers and has published ground-breaking articles on tax policy, monetary economics, international finance and corporate finance. Ph.D., 1983, Harvard University.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Laurence J. Kotlikoff is Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and President of Economic Security Planning, Inc., which produces financial planning software. Kotlikoff has authored eleven books and hundreds of articles on saving, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, insurance, altruism, bequests, pensions, and personal finance. Kotlikoff and his co-authors pioneered computable general equilibrium dynamic life-cycle models, generational accounting, and consumption-smoothing software. Ph.D. Harvard, 1977; B.A. University of Penn., 1973.
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman won the John Bates Clark medal in 1991--awarded every second year to a single economist--for his work on imperfect competition and international trade. He is now a Professor of Economics and International Trade at Princeton University, and a regular op-ed columnist for the New York Times. Ph.D. MIT 1977.
Alicia Munnell
Alicia Munnell is Director of the Center for Retirement Research and Drucker Professor at Boston College. She has been a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, and Senior Vice President for Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. She was also a co-founder and the first President of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Ph.D., Harvard; M.A., Boston University; B.A., Wellesley College.
Barry Nalebuff
Barry Nalebuff is the Milton Steinbach Professor at Yale School of Management. An expert on game theory, he has written extensively on its application to business strategy. He is coauthor of Thinking Strategically, Co-opetition. and, most recently, Why Not?. He is also a commentator on public radio's Marketplace and a columnist at Forbes. He was previously a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Rhodes Scholar. D.Phil., Oxford, 1982; S.B., MIT, 1980.
Douglass C. North
Douglass North, recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Economics, is a Professor of economics at Washington University in Saint Louis, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Much of his research has concentrated on institutions and institutional change. His current research spans many areas including cognitive science, economic history, the free rider problem, growth of government, and a theory of institutional change. Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 1952; B.A. UC Berkeley, 1942.
Richard A. Posner
Richard A. Posner is a founder of law and economics. Since 1981, he has served as a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and is one of the most influential judges in America. In addition, he is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago, the author of numerous leading academic articles and books, including Economic Analysis of Law – now in its 5th edition. J.D., Harvard, 1962, B.A. Yale, 1959.
Cecilia Elena Rouse
Cecilia Elena Rouse is the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her primary research and teaching interests are labor economics, with a particular focus on the economics of education. Most recently, she has examined Florida's school accountability system and randomized evaluations of the use of computers in schools. Ph.D. Harvard University.
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics, is a University Professor at Columbia University. He served as the Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. He was also the Chief Economist and Vice President for Development of the World Bank. He has authored hundreds of academic articles as well as Globalization and its Discontents, and The Roaring Nineties. Ph.D. MIT, 1967; B.A. Amherst, 1964.