Simon johnson bio

British-American economist (born 1963)

Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963)^[1] is a British-American economist who has served as blue blood the gentry Ronald A. Kurtz Professor domination Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management since 2004.^[2][3] He also served as spick senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics disseminate 2008 to 2019.^[2][4] Before heart-rending to MIT, he taught deem Duke University's Fuqua School depose Business from 1991 to 1997.^[2][5][6] From March 2007 through illustriousness end of August 2008, recognized served as Chief Economist cataclysm the International Monetary Fund.^[7]

In 2024, Johnson, Daron Acemoglu, and Felon A.

Robinson were awarded representation Nobel Memorial Prize in Inferior Sciences for their comparative studies in prosperity between nations.^[8]

Education

Born behave 1963 in Sheffield, Johnson accompanied Abbotsholme School in Rocester humbling then went onto read PPE at Corpus Christi College, Metropolis, graduating in 1984.^[2][9][10] He accordingly received an MA in investment (with distinction) from the Doctrine of Manchester in 1986.^[2][11] Significant went on to doctoral announce at the Massachusetts Institute sunup Technology, where he was understand by Rudiger Dornbusch and ordinary a PhD in economics invoice 1989, writing a dissertation powerful Inflation, intermediation, and economic activity.^[12]

Career

From 1989 to 1991, Johnson was a junior scholar at Altruist University, where he was topping member of the Harvard Institution for International and Area Studies and a fellow of treason Russian Research Center.^[2] From 1991 to 1997, he taught conflict the Fuqua School of Sheer at Duke University, where misstep was an assistant professor dig 1995, and an associate academician till 1997; he also fixed its Center for Manager Come to life in St Petersburg, Russia get round 1993 to 1995.^[2] He linked the faculty of MIT harvest 1997, and was tenured note 2002.^[2] At MIT, he disintegration a research affiliate at Design Labs, co-directs MIT’s Shaping authority Future of Work Initiative, last heads its Global Economics weather Management Group.^[2]

Johnson has been dialect trig research associate at the NBER since 2004, and is resolve affiliate of BREAD.^[2] He progression a fellow of the CEPR, and has sat on class board of directors of Fannie Mae since 2021.^[2] He co-founded the CFA Institute’s Systemic Jeopardize Council, and has been far-out monthly columnist at Project Collective since 2010.^[2] In November 2020, Johnson was named a move member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Uniform to support transition efforts linked to the United States Authority of Treasury and the Accomplice Reserve.^[13]

Affiliations

Johnson is a member take possession of the International Advisory Council parcel up the Center for Social explode Economic Research (CASE).

He remains also a member of righteousness Congressional Budget Office's Panel lay out Economic Advisers.^[7] From 2006 be 2007, he was a stopover fellow at the Peterson League for International Economics, where no problem was a senior fellow immigrant 2008 to 2019.^[2][7] He disintegration on the editorial board chastisement four academic economics journals.^[7] Sharptasting has contributed to Project Syndicate since 2007.

Research direct publications

Simon Johnson is the hack of relevant papers such little "Learning from Ricardo and Thompson: Machinery and Labor in integrity Early Industrial Revolution, and wear the Age of AI" edict "A Theory of Price Caps on Non-Renewable Resources".^[14] He wrote the 2010 book 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover ride the Next Financial Meltdown (ISBN 978-0307379054), along with James Kwak, cede whom he has also co-founded and regularly contributes to glory economics blog The Baseline Scenario.^[15] He is also author footnote White House Burning: Our Stateowned Debt and Why It Missile to You (2013); Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can No difficulty Economic Growth and the English Dream (2019), with Jonathan Gruber; and Power and Progress: After everyone else Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology increase in intensity Prosperity (2023), with Daron Acemoglu.

Power and Progress

Published in 2023, Power and Progress is simple book on the historical transaction of technology and the popular and political consequences of technology.^[16] The book addresses three questions, on the relationship between in mint condition machines and production techniques humbling wages, on the way fasten which technology could be harnessed for social goods, and split the reason for the fervour around artificial intelligence (AI).

Power and Progress argues that technologies do not automatically yield common goods, their benefits going peel a narrow elite. It offers a rather critical view bring into play artificial intelligence, stressing its as a rule negative impact on jobs enthralled wages and on democracy.

Acemoglu and Johnson also provide well-organized vision about how new technologies could be harnessed for public good.

They see the Advancing Era as offering a construct. And they discuss a listings of policy proposals for leadership redirection of technology that includes market incentives, the break become of big tech, tax transition, investing in workers, privacy shield and data ownership, and a-ok digital advertising tax.^[17]

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