Expert on international economics and finance.

Highlights

Brad DeLong is an expert on international economics and finance, with an impressive portfolio of academic research and public service. He offers global, regional and national economic overviews, informed discussion of trends in inflation, trade, currencies and other economic issues affecting business, and insights into economic policy.

He served in the U.S. government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1993 to 1995, where he worked on the Clinton Administration's 1993 budget, on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, on macroeconomic policy, on the unsuccessful health care reform effort, and on many other issues.

Coauthor of The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money, Brad DeLong and coauthor Stephen Cohen explore the grave consequences the loss of power and money will have for America’s place in the world. The End of Influence explains the far-reaching and potentially long-lasting but little-noted consequences of our great fiscal crisis.

DeLong has written on the evolution and functioning of the U.S. and other nations' stock markets, the dynamics of long-run economic growth, the making of economic policy, the changing nature of the American business cycle, and the history of economic thought.

J. Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California Berkeley, where he chairs the international political economy major.

A research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, he also was Danziger Associate Professor of economics at Harvard University and John M. Olin Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Fields

Economic growth
Macroeconomics
Finance
Economic history

Research Interests

Comparative technological and industrial revolutions
Finance and corporate control
Economic growth
Behavioral finance
The political economy of monetary and fiscal policy
Financial crises and 20^th century macroeconomics
The long-term shape of economic history
History of economic thought
Causes of the great depression
The rise of the west
The rise and fall of social democracy

Credentials

• Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
• Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Visiting Lecturer, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
• Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Dept. of the Treasury
• Former John M. Olin Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, Harvard University