Wolfers praised Biden's emerging team of economic advisers...as "damn solid. This is a group that is individually and collectively committed to both full employment and boosting wages," he said.
Read the full Common Dreams article about Biden's...
In the January 10, 2019 PBS NewsHour story “Evaluating Trump’s economic policies, 2 years in,” Paul Solman asked Ford School Professor, and former member of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) for the Obama Administration, Betsey Stevenson about...
In a recently released letter to the Senate Banking Committee, prominent economists including Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers of the Ford School, have urged the confirmation of American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Kevin Hassett, President...
Betsey Stevenson is helping to paint a picture of the stark reality surrounding racial and economic inequality in the United States. In a July 30 Yahoo Politics article, "Obama: Investing in minority men is not 'charity,' it's lucrative," Senior...
To solve a vexing problem. To seize a promising opportunity. To find the best path forward. For centuries, for millennia, we’ve sought the power of prescience. These days, policy analysis—well and thoughtfully done—is among the most powerful tools...
By Miriam Wasserman
Jordan Matsudaira, PhD alum, stays second year to work as chief staff economist for President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers
Only a very small number of economists get to work for the Council of Economic Advisers....
Today, the White House announced President Obama's appointment of Ford School economist Betsey Stevenson as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).Stevenson is an associate professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the...
Marina Whitman discussed her new book, "The Martian's Daughter", on American Public Media's Marketplace, which is carried on hundreds of NPR stations nationwide.In her book, Whitman, who served on the president's Council of Economic Advisers and was...
In a guest column for the Detroit Free Press, Marina v.N. Whitman, the first woman appointed to the President's Council of Economic Advisers by President Nixon, said the bipartisanship of that era has disappeared from today's politics."Campaigns are...
Dear Ford School Alumni and Friends: The featured speaker will be Ford School/Brookings/New York Times-affiliated economist, Justin Wolfers, discussing economics and happiness. Justin and his partner Betsey Stevenson—another nationally prominent economist, currently a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers—joined the Ford School faculty in fall 2012.
Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, discusses the current state of the U.S. economy and answers audience Q & A. November, 2016.
