Alan Blinder

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Alan Stuart Blinder (born October 14, 1945) is an American economist, a chair professor in the Economics Department of Princeton University and co-director of Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies, which he founded in 1990.

Blinder received his undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton, graduating summa cum laude in 1967. He subsequently attended the London School of Economics and then received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971.

Blinder has served as the Deputy Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office, on President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, and as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1994 to 1996. He was an adviser to John Kerry during the latter's 2004 presidential campaign.

Blinder graduated from Syosset High School in Syosset, New York. He is married and has two sons.

Important Works

* The Quiet Revolution / Alan S. Blinder，144 pages: Yale University Press (April 10, 2004)
* Downsizing in America: Reality, Causes, And Consequences(with William J. Baumol) (Paperback - Mar 31, 2005)
* The fabulous decade: macroeconomic lessons from the 1990s (with Janet L. щYellen) New York: The Century Foundation Press, c2001
* Asking About Prices: A New Approach to Understanding Price Stickiness
* Central Banking in Theory and Practice
* Growing Together: An Alternative Economic Strategy for the 1990s
* Paying for Productivity
* Macroeconomics Under Debate (Hardcover - Mar 1, 1990)
* Inventory Theory and Consumer Behavior
* Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: Tough‑Minded Economics for a Just Society
* Economics: Principles and Policy (with William Baumol)
* Economic Opinion, Private Pensions and Public Pensions: Theory and Fact
* Economic Policy and the Great Stagflation. New York: Academic Press, c1979.
* Natural Resources, Uncertainty and General Equilibrium Systems: Essays in Memory of Rafael Lusky
* Toward an Economic Theory of Income Distribution

Cash for Clunkers

Cash for Clunkers is a generic name given by Alan Blinder for a variety of programs under which the government buys up some of the oldest, most polluting vehicles and s them. If done successfully, it holds the promise of performing a remarkable public policy trifecta — stimulating the economy, improving the environment and reducing income inequality all at the same time [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/business/27view.html?ex=1374811200&en=a19470300b516a2f&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink] .

See also

* Clunker

External links

* Blinder's Princeton homepage: http://www.princeton.edu/~blinder/index.htm

Cash for Clunkers

* [http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=08-P13-00037&segmentID=4 Cash for Clunkers: Interview with] Bruce Gellerman.
* [http://www.calcars.org/calcars-news/1007.html Should We Crush Gas-Guzzlers? Or Convert Them to Plug In? An Analysis. Cash for Clunkers and Hybrid Vehicles] (CalCars)