Biography

James Bradford DeLong (born June 24, 1960, Boston) commonly known as Brad DeLong, is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.[1]

Along with Joseph Stiglitz and Aaron Edlin, DeLong is co-editor of The Economists' Voice,[2] and has in the past been co-editor of the widely read Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is also the author of a textbook, Macroeconomics, the second edition of which he coauthored with Martha Olney. He writes a monthly syndicated op-ed column for Project Syndicate.

As an official in the Treasury Department 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, on the unsuccessful health care reform effort, and on other policies.

He writes a weblog, Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal, which covers political, technical, and economic issues as well as criticism of their coverage in the media; he also contributes to Shrillblog and maintains a political commentary site, Egregious Moderation.

DeLong is both a liberal in the modern American political sense and a free trade neo-liberal. He has cited Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Lawrence Summers, Andrei Shleifer, and Milton Friedman as the economists who have had the greatest influence on his views.[3]

DeLong lives in suburban Lafayette, California, and is married to Ann Marie Marciarille,[4] AARP Health and Aging Policy Research Fellow at Pacific McGeorge's Capital Center for Government Law and Policy.[5] He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987. Before moving to Berkeley, he taught at Harvard, Boston University, and MIT. 

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