Simon Johnson (economist)

Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963)[1] is a British American economist. He is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management[2] and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[3] He has held a wide variety of academic and policy-related positions, including Professor of Economics at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.[4] From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he was Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.[5]

Simon Johnson
Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
In office March 2007 – August 31, 2008
President	Rodrigo Rato Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Preceded by	Raghuram Rajan
Succeeded by	Olivier Blanchard
Personal details
Born	(1963-01-16) January 16, 1963
Education	University of Oxford (BA) University of Manchester (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Academic career
Field	Political economy Development economics
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

He is author, with James Kwak, of the 2010 book 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (ISBN 978-0307379054), with whom he has also co-founded and regularly contributes to the economics blog The Baseline Scenario.[6]

Education

Johnson's first degree was a BA from the University of Oxford, which was followed by an MA from the University of Manchester, and finally in 1989 he earned a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, with a dissertation entitled Inflation, intermediation, and economic activity.[7]

Affiliations

Among other positions he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research,[8] and a member of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). He is also a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers.[5] From 2006 to 2007 he was a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, where he is currently a senior fellow.[5] He is on the editorial board of four academic economics journals.[5] He has contributed to Project Syndicate since 2007.

See also

• Brown–Kaufman amendment

Notes

1. U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
2. Interview with Terry Gross on NPR
3. Simon Johnson's biography at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
4. LA Times, 29 November 1991, "Muscovites: Want Shares In Boeing For 44 ½?"
5. Simon Johnson's biography at MIT
6. About the Baseline Scenario
7. "Inflation, intermediation and economic activity". MIT library.
8. List of Center for Economic Policy Research Fellows

Further reading

• Johnson, Simon, "The Quiet Coup", Atlantic Monthly, May 2009

External links

• Faculty profile at MIT
• Johnson's co-blog at MIT
• Profile at the International Monetary Fund
• Column archive at Project Syndicate
• CV of Simon Johnson at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE)
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Works by or about Simon Johnson in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Video (with audio-only available) of conversation with Johnson about economic issues on Bloggingheads.tv
• Simon Johnson's economics blog "Baseline Scenario"
• Interview with BBC Peter Day's World of Business – Podcast
• MIT video presentation of "13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown"
• April 16 2010 appearance on Bill Moyer's Journal, joined by colleague James Kwak
• Roberts, Russ (November 28, 2011). "Simon Johnson on the Financial Crisis". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.

Business positions
Preceded by Raghuram Rajan	Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund 2007–2008	Succeeded by Olivier Blanchard