Alan S. Blinder

Alan S. Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton. He was Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve between 1994 and 1996. His most recent book is After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead.  (December 2014)

‘What’s the Matter with Economics?’: An Exchange

‘What’s the Matter with Economics?’: An Exchange

The assumptions of mainstream economists and their influence on policy

January 8, 2015 issue

What’s the Matter with Economics?

What’s the Matter with Economics?

Jeff Madrick’s ‘Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World’

Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World

by Jeff Madrick

December 18, 2014 issue

Exchange

Arnold Packer

‘What’s the Matter with Economics?’: An Exchange

The assumptions of mainstream economists and their influence on policy

January 8, 2015 issue

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