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Michael Mandel

Michael Mandel was BusinessWeek's chief economist from 1989-2009, where he helped direct the magazine's coverage of the domestic and global economies.

Since joining BusinessWeek in 1989, he has received multiple awards for his work, including being honored as one of the 100 top U.S. business journalists of the 20th century for his coverage of the New Economy. In 2006 Mandel was named "Best Economic Journalist" by the World Leadership Forum.

Mandel is the author of several books, including Rational Exuberance, The Coming Internet Depression, and The High Risk Society.

Mandel holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

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Michael Mandel's Latest Articles | 110

App Economy is ‘Job Leader’ Into the Future

Feb 7, 2012| 

Last spring Technet asked me to examine the size of the ‘App Economy’, focusing on the number of jobs being created.  The official job statistics from the BLS... Read »

Gain in Tech Help-Wanted Ads: Good News for Labor Market

Feb 3, 2012| 

After months of stagnation, labor demand appears to be perking up again, according to the latest data from The Conference Board Help Wanted Online report. Led by... Read »

Obama Administration Makes Crucial Pivot on Trade and Jobs

Jan 12, 2012| 2

Moving into the 2012 election season, the Obama Administration is making a critical  pivot in its political and economic narrative on trade and jobs. During his... Read »

Can Insourcing Be A Major Source of Job Creation?

Jan 9, 2012| 

Can insourcing  be a major source of job creation for the U.S.?  The answer is yes, with a caveat. Widespread insourcing–or import recapture, as I like to call... Read »

Why Obama Needs A Competitiveness Audit

Jan 9, 2012| 

President Obama is talking about ‘insourcing’…bringing jobs back into this country again. That’s great. But can insourcing really create enough jobs to make... Read »

The Investment Drought Continues

Dec 30, 2011| 

I’m sorry, every time I hear about the need to boost consumer spending I have to stop myself from pounding the table. As we round into 2012, the real weakness... Read »

A Decade of State and Local Gov’t Stagnation

Nov 24, 2011| 

This chart shows that real state and local government output, as measured by the BEA, has been effectively flat since 2001. To put it a different way, the stagnation... Read »

Congress and Ostrich Economics

Nov 18, 2011| 

Faced with the need to make policy in a rapidly changing economy, Congress is going absolutely the wrong way by planning to cut funding for the Census Bureau to... Read »

Jobs: Glass More Than Half Empty

Nov 10, 2011| 

From the BLS, a chart showing the number of unemployed workers per job opening. Unemployed workers per job openings is clearly trending downward, which is good... Read »

Nobel Prize Irrelevancy?

Oct 10, 2011| 

For years when I was chief economics writer at BusinessWeek, I would write our post-Nobel piece.  I was often one of the few people who would challenge the adulation... Read »

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