Alan S. Blinder

Biography

Alan S. Blinder is Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He has been on the Princeton faculty since 1971, taking time off between 1993 and 1996 for service in the US government, first as a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers, and then as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

In addition to his academic writings and his best-selling introductory textbook on economics, he has written many newspaper and magazine columns and op-eds and, in recent years, has been a regular columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He also appears frequently on television on PBS, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg and others.

Dr Blinder is a Distinguished Fellow and past vice president of the American Economic Association and a past president of the Eastern Economic Association. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Political and Social Science.