Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963) is a

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economist. He is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs ...

and a senior fellow at the

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. He has held a wide variety of academic and policy-related positions, including Professor of Economics at

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. From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, he was

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of the

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. He is author, with

James Kwak James Kwak (born 1969) is a Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, best known as co-founder, with Simon Johnson, in September 2008, of the economics blog "The Baseline Scenario", a commentary on developments in the global ...

, of the 2010 book '' 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown'' (), with whom he has also co-founded and regularly contributes to the economics blog The Baseline Scenario.

Education

Johnson's first degree was a BA from the

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, which was followed by an MA from the

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, and finally in 1989 he earned a Ph.D. in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics anal ...

from MIT, with a dissertation entitled ''Inflation, intermediation, and economic activity''.

Career

In November 2020, Johnson was named a volunteer member of the

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Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the

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and the

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Affiliations

Among other positions he is a research associate at the

National Bureau of Economic Research The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic c ...

, a research fellow at the

Centre for Economic Policy Research The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is an independent, non‐partisan, pan‐European non‐profit organisation. Its mission is to enhance the quality of policy decisions through providing policy‐relevant research, based soundly in e ...

, and a member of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE). He is also a member of the

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's Panel of Economic Advisers. From 2006 to 2007 he was a visiting fellow at the

, where he is currently a senior fellow. He is on the editorial board of four academic economics journals. He has contributed to ''

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'' since 2007.

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External links

Faculty profile
at

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Johnson's co-blog at MIT

at the

Column archive
at

CV of Simon Johnson
at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) * *
Video (with audio-only available) of conversation with Johnson about economic issues
on

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Simon Johnson's economics blog "Baseline Scenario"

Interview with BBC Peter Day's World of Business – Podcast

MIT video presentation of "13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown"

joined by colleague

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