Jason Furman

Jason Lee Furman ( born August 18, 1970 in New York) is an American economist and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Life

Jason Furman, was born as the son of the businessman and lawyer Jay Furman and his wife, the child psychologist Gail Furman. He grew up in New York City and attended the private Dalton School on the Upper East Side. In 1992, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences at Harvard University, in 1993 a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics, 1995 a Master of Arts degree in government ( translate ) at Harvard University, and - after it outside for some time the University of operation worked - 2003 Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University. His dissertation was supervised by Greg Mankiw. Furman's research includes the topics of fiscal policy, tax policy, health economics, social security and monetary policy. As a guest lecturer, he taught at Yale University (2001-2002), Columbia University (2002-2003) and New York University (from 2005).

From 1996 to 1997, the Democrat Furman belonged in the reign of Bill Clinton already the Council of Economic Advisers under Joseph Stiglitz, with whom he joined the World Bank in 1997. From 1999 to 2000 he was an assistant for economic policy at the White House. As an economics consultant, he supported the presidential candidacies of Al Gore (2000), Wesley Clark (2003-2004 ), John Kerry (2004) and Barack Obama ( 2008). From 2001 to 2002 he was Director of Sebago Associates, from 2004 to 2006 at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities busy, between 2007 and 2008 Director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and 2009-2013 Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. In August 2013, he joined then the successor of Alan B. Krueger as director of the Council of Economic Advisers.

He is married with Eve Gerber and has a son and a daughter.

Works

In addition to articles in professional journals, he has published several books on economic policy, including:

  • Jason Lee Furman: New institutionalisms? Markets and institutions in contemporary political economy. Thesis ( AB, Honors in Social Studies ), Harvard University, 1992
  • John Fernald and Jason Furman: Solutions manual. For use with Mankiw, Macroeconomics, 3rd ed 3rd edition, Worth, New York 1997, ISBN 1-57259-236-2
  • Jason Furman and Joseph E. Stiglitz: Economic crises. Evidence and insights from East Asia ( = Brookings papers on economic activity ). Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 1998 2, ISSN 0007-2303, pp. 1-114
  • Jason Furman: Essays on monetary economics. Thesis ( Ph. D., Dept. Of Economics), Harvard University, 2004
  • Jason Furman and Jason Bordoff ( Eds.): Path to Prosperity. Hamilton Project Ideas on Income Security, Education, and Taxes. Brookings Institute Press, Washington, DC 2008, ISBN 978-0-8157-3012-5, ISBN 978-0-8157-3013-2
  • Jason Furman (Ed.): Who Has the Cure. Hamilton Project Ideas on Health Care Brookings Inst Press, Washington, DC 2008, ISBN 978-0-8157-3008-8, ISBN 978-0-8157-3009-5
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