J. Bradford DeLong

J. Bradford DeLong (born June 24, 1960), a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, writes a popular blog, Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal which covers political, technical, and economic issues as well as criticism of their coverage in the media. He is also the author of a textbook, Macroeconomics.

DeLong was born in Boston. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987 after which he taught at Harvard, Boston University, and MIT. From 1993 to 1995, DeLong was deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration. He worked on the 1993 budget, on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, and on the unsuccessful health care reform effort led by Hillary Clinton.

DeLong is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and The Economists' Voice, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

DeLong is both a liberal, in the modern American political sense, and a free trade neo-liberal. He is part of an increasingly influential group of center/center-left bloggers who include Kevin Drum (formerly "CalPundit") and Matt Yglesias of The American Prospect.

External links

• DeLong's website
• DeLong's website at Berkeley
• Journal of Economic Perspectives
• The Economists' Voice