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Brad DeLong in his office in December 2007.

James Bradford DeLong (b. June 24, 1960, Boston) 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]

DeLong is chair of Berkeley's political economy major and a professor in the economics department. He teaches intermediate macroeconomics, graduate economic history, American economic history, economic growth, and other courses.^[2]

DeLong is co-editor of The Economists' Voice,^[3] 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 is part of a loose grouping of center-left bloggers who include Kevin Drum (formerly "CalPundit") of The Washington Monthly, Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo, Matt Yglesias of The Atlantic Monthly, Ezra Klein, and the group webloggers of Obsidian Wings, The RBC, and Crooked Timber, among others. He is also part of a lively grouping of economics-focused webloggers including Mark Thoma of Economist's View, Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok of Marginal Revolution, Dani Rodrik, George Borjas, Andrew Samwick of Vox Baby, Jim Hamilton and Menzie Chinn of Econobrowser, Max Sawicky of Max Speak, You Listen!, and Brad Setser of Roubini Global Economics, among others.

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.

Major publications listed on Brad DeLong's Academic CV include:

• "Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets" (Journal of Political Economy, 1990; co-authored with Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence Summers, and Robert Waldmann)
• "Equipment Investment and Economic Growth" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1991; co-authored with Lawrence Summers)
• "In Defense of Mexico's Rescue" (Foreign Affairs, 1996; co-authored with Christopher DeLong and Sherman Robinson)
• "Princes and Merchants: European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution" (Journal of Law and Economics 1993; co-authored with Andrei Shleifer)
• "The Marshall Plan: History's Most Successful Structural Adjustment Programme" (in R. Dornbusch et al., eds., Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East , Cambridge: M.I.T., 1993; co-authored with Barry Eichengreen)
• "Between Meltdown and Moral Hazard: The International Monetary and Financial Policy of the Clinton Administration" (co-authored with Barry J. Eichengreen)
• "Review of Robert Skidelsky (2000), John Maynard Keynes, volume 3, Fighting for Britain" (Journal of Economic Literature, 2002)
• "The Triumph? of Monetarism" (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2000)
• "Asset Returns and Economic Growth" (Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2005; co-authored with Dean Baker and Paul Krugman)
• "Productivity Growth in the 2000s" (NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2003)
• "The New Economy: Background, Questions, Speculations" (Economic Policies for the Information Age, 2002; co-authored with Lawrence Summers)
• "Speculative Microeconomics for Tomorrow's Economy" (First Monday, 2000; co-authored with Michael Froomkin)
• "America's Peacetime Inflation" (in Reducing Inflation, 1998)
• "Keynesianism Pennsylvania-Avenue Style" (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996)
• "Productivity and Machinery Investment: A Long-Run Look, 1870-1980" (Journal of Economic History, June 1992)
• "The Stock Market Bubble of 1929: Evidence from Closed-End Funds" (Journal of Economic History, September 1991; co-authored with Andrei Shleifer)

• Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (weblog)
• DeLong's syndicated op/ed column by Project Syndicate
• DeLong's website
• DeLong's website at Berkeley
• Journal of Economic Perspectives
• The Economists' Voice
• "The Order of the Shrill"
• "Egregious Moderation"