J. Bradford DeLong | |
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 DeLong in October 2010 | |
| Born | James Bradford DeLong (1960-06-24)June 24, 1960 (age 65) Boston,Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (BA,MA,PhD) |
| Influences | Adam Smith John Maynard Keynes Milton Friedman Lawrence Summers Andrei Shleifer |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition | New Keynesian economics |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Website | |
James Bradford "Brad"DeLong (born June 24, 1960) is an Americaneconomic historian who has been a professor of economics at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, since 1993.[1]
DeLong was born inBoston, Massachusetts, on June 24, 1960. He received aBA insocial studies fromHarvard University in 1982, and aPhD ineconomics from Harvard in 1987.[2] From 1986 to 1987, he was an instructor atMIT, and he taught economics at Harvard andBoston University from 1987 to 1993. In 1991–1992, he was aJohn M. Olin Fellow at theNational Bureau of Economic Research, where he has also been a research associate since 1995.[2]
DeLong joined Berkeley as an associate professor in 1993.[3] From April 1993 to May 1995, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at theTreasury Department in Washington, D.C.[2] As an official in the Treasury Department in theClinton administration, he worked on the 1993federal budget, the unsuccessfulhealth care reform effort, and other policies, and on severaltrade issues, including theUruguay Round of theGeneral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and theNorth American Free Trade Agreement.[1] He became a full professor at Berkeley in 1997 and has been there ever since.[1]
DeLong has been aresearch associate of theNational Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a visiting scholar at theFederal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and anAlfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.[4] Along withJoseph Stiglitz andAaron Edlin, DeLong is co-editor ofThe Economists' Voice,[5] and has been co-editor of theJournal of Economic Perspectives. He is the author of a textbook,Macroeconomics, the second edition of which he coauthored withMartha Olney. WithHeather Boushey and Marshall Steinbaum, he co-edited the bookAfter Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality (2017), a volume of 22 essays about how to integrate inequality into economic thinking. He also contributes toProject Syndicate.[6]
In 1990 and 1991, DeLong and Lawrence Summers co-wrote two theoretical papers that became critical theoretical underpinnings for the financial deregulation put in place when Summers was Secretary of the Treasury underBill Clinton. In 2019, DeLong said that he and other neoliberals had been "certainly wrong, 100 percent, on the politics" of economic policies. While he continued to believe that "good incremental policies" might be superior, he concluded that they were politically unattainable because of the lack ofRepublicans willing to work toward such goals. Instead, DeLong said that he favored "Medicare for all, funded by acarbon tax, with a whole bunch ofUniversal Basic Income rebates for the poor and public investment in green technologies." He concluded, "The world appears to be more like what lefties thought it was than what I thought it was for the last 10 or 15 years."[7]
DeLong is an activeblogger on political and economic issues and media criticism.[8] In 2022, he publishedSlouching Towards Utopia, an economic history of the 20th century from aKeynesian perspective.[9][10][11]
DeLong lives inBerkeley, California,[12] with his wife, Ann Marie Marciarille,[13] a professor of law (specializing in healthcare law) at theUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City.[14]
