J. Bradford DeLong

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J. Bradford DeLong (born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 24, 1960) is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury in the Clinton Administration. He writes a popular blog, Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal, which covers political, technical, and economic issues as well as criticism of their coverage in the media. He is also the author of a textbook, Macroeconomics, the second edition of which he coauthored with Marty Olney.

DeLong is an editor of [The Economists' Voice] and has in the past been co-editor of the widely-read Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. As part of the Treasury Department in the Clinton administration, he worked on the 1993 budget, on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, on the unsuccessful health care reform effort, and on other policies.

DeLong is both a liberal in the modern American political sense and a free trade neo-liberal. He is part of an increasingly influential group of center-left bloggers who include Kevin Drum (formerly "CalPundit") and Matt Yglesias of The American Prospect. In the blogosphere, DeLong is regarded as a nemesis of libertarian economist Donald Luskin, whom he refers to as "The Stupidest Man Alive", for what DeLong views as Luskin's frequent misstatements regarding basic economic theory.

DeLong lives in suburban Lafayette, California, and is married to Ann Marie Marciarille. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987. Before moving to Berkeley, he taught at Harvard, Boston University, and MIT.

Publications

Major publications include:

"Asset Returns and Economic Growth" (Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2005; co-authored with Dean Baker and Paul Krugman)
"Productivity Growth in the 2000s" (NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2003)
"Between Meltdown and Moral Hazard: Clinton Administration International Monetary and Financial Policy" (American Economic Policy in the 1990s, 2002; co-authored with Barry J. Eichengreen)
"The New Economy: Background, Questions, Speculations" (Economic Policies for the Information Age, 2002; co-authored with Lawrence Summers)
"Review of Robert Skidelsky (2000), John Maynard Keynes, volume 3, Fighting for Britain" (Journal of Economic Literature, 2002)
"Speculative Microeconomics for Tomorrow's Economy" (First Monday, 2000; co-authored with Michael Froomkin)
"America's Peacetime Inflation" (in Reducing Inflation, 1998)
"Keynesianism Pennsylvania-Avenue Style" (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996)
"In Defense of Mexico's Rescue" (Foreign Affairs, 1996; co-authored with Christopher DeLong and Sherman Robinson)
"Princes and Merchants: European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution" (Journal of Law and Economics 1993; co-authored with Andrei Shleifer)
"The Marshall Plan: History's Most Successful Structural Adjustment Programme" (in R. Dornbusch et al., eds., Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East , Cambridge: M.I.T., 1993; co-authored with Barry Eichengreen)
"Productivity and Machinery Investment: A Long-Run Look, 1870-1980" (Journal of Economic History, June 1992)
"The Stock Market Bubble of 1929: Evidence from Closed-End Funds" (Journal of Economic History, September 1991; co-authored with Andrei Shleifer),
"Equipment Investment and Economic Growth" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1991; co-authored with Lawrence Summers)
"Noise trader risk in financial markets" (Journal of Political Economy, 1990; co-authored with Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence Summers, and Robert Waldmann)

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