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]

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,^{[citation needed]} and finally in 1989 he earned a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, with a dissertation entitled Inflation, intermediation, and economic activity.^[7]

Career[]

In November 2020, Johnson was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of Treasury and the Federal Reserve.^[8]

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,^[9] 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[]

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.