Alan Blinder: Podcast Interviews

Alan Blinder

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Economist, Interview host, Author

5 Interviews

Alan Blinder's Interviews

Edward Brown & Alan Blinder • 22 Dec 2023 • EN

Alan Blinder: Why Politicians Ignore Economists

Alan Blinder

Rob Johnson & Alan Blinder • 28 Sep 2023 • EN

Alan Blinder: Looking Back and Looking Ahead: 15 Years After the Lehman Collapse

Former Fed vice chair and Princeton University economics professor Alan Blinder takes a close look at what lessons still remain to be learned in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis.

Alan Blinder & Caleb Zakarin • 06 Apr 2023 • EN

Alan Blinder, "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, and eight Federal Reserve chairs, from William McChesney Martin to Jerome Powell, this is an insider's story of macroeconomic policy. Focusing on the most significant developments and long-term changes, Alan Blinder traces the highs and lows of monetary and

Michael Shermer & Alan Blinder • 11 Oct 2022 • EN

301. Alan Blinder — A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States

Shermer and Blinder discuss: serving on Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers • being the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board • What kind of science is economics? • how one’s political leanings influence cause-and-effect economic theories • the difference between monetary and fiscal policy • a Keynesian appro