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• Alan S. Blinder

  Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

   

   

  Dr. Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and codirector of Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies, which he founded in 1990.  He is also vice chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network. Dr. Blinder was vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1994–96), during which time he often represented the Fed in international forums, and was a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers (1993–94), where he worked intensively on budget, international trade, and health care issues.  Dr. Blinder was previously president of the Eastern Economic Association and vice president of the American Economic Association.  He is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, the Bellagio Group, and a former governor of the American Stock Exchange.  He has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Economic Club of New York, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is based in Princeton, NJ.

  
  

  
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  C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics: A Conversation with Charles Plosser (Audio)

  Speaker:	Charles Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
  Presider:	Alan S. Blinder, G. S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics, Princeton University

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