Alan S. Blinder is one of the world’s most renowned economists. He is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, vice chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network, and a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Blinder served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 1994 to 1996, and before that was a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers, 1993 to 1994. He has advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton, and he continues to advise numerous members of Congress and officeholders. Dr. Blinder is the author or co-author of twenty books, including the best-selling After the Music Stopped (Penguin, 2013), which the New York Times named one of the five top nonfiction books of 2013. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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