Alan Stuart Blinder (October 14, 1945 - ) is an American economist, on the faculty of Columbia University, and was an adviser to John Kerry during the latter's 2004 presidential campaign. He graduated high school from Horace Mann in New York. October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Alan Greenspan, former chairman, United States Federal Reserve. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Al Gore (born December 11, 1943) is a Vietnam Veteran and the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist. ...

Blinder received his undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton, graduating summa cum laude in 1967. He subsequently attended Oxford and then received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971. Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ...

He has served as the Deputy Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office, on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, and as the Vice Chairman on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Blinder is married and has two sons. The Congressional Budget Office is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government. ... Order: 42nd President Term of Office: January 20, 1993–January 20, 2001 Preceded by: George H. W. Bush Succeeded by: George W. Bush Date of birth: August 19, 1946 Place of birth: Hope, Arkansas Date of death: Place of death: First Lady: Hillary Rodham Clinton Political party: Democratic Vice... The Council of Economic Advisers is a group of economists set up to advise the President of the United States. ... The Federal Reserve System is headquartered in the Eccles Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. The Federal Reserve System (also the Federal Reserve; informally The Fed) is the central bank of the United States. ...

Links

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

Works by Alan Blinder

• 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