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Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., a co-founder of BaselineScenario.com, a widely cited website on the global economy, and is a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers.

Mr. Johnson appears regularly on NPR's Planet Money podcast in the Economist House Calls feature, is a weekly contributor to NYT.com's Economix, and has a video blog feature on The New Republic's website. He is co-director of the NBER project on Africa and President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (term of office 2008-2009).

From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, Professor Johnson was the International Monetary Fund's Economic Counsellor (chief economist) and Director of its Research Department. At the IMF, Professor Johnson led the global economic outlook team, helped formulate innovative responses to worldwide financial turmoil, and was among the earliest to propose new forms of engagement for sovereign wealth funds. He was also the first IMF chief economist to have a blog.

His PhD is in economics from MIT, while his MA is from the University of Manchester and his BA is from the University of Oxford.

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Simon Johnson's Latest Articles | 101

G20 and Buffett’s Bet on Emerging Markets

Nov 8, 2009| 

The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors are meeting in St. Andrews, talking about the data they will need to look at in order to monitor each other’s... Read »

Ackermann vs. Hoenig: Take It to the WTO

Nov 3, 2009| 

Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank (DB) and chairman of the Institute of International Finance (an influential group, reflecting the interests of... Read »

U.K. to Break Up Biggest Banks

Nov 2, 2009| 

The WSJ reports (on-line): “The U.K.’s top treasury official Sunday said the government is starting a process to rebuild the country’s banking system, likely... Read »

We Are On An Unsustainable Fiscal Path With the Potential for New Financial Bubbles

Oct 30, 2009| 

Yesterday morning I testified to a Joint Economic Committee of Congress hearing.  The session discussed the latest GDP numbers, the impact of the fiscal stimulus... Read »

The Tarullo-King Gap

Oct 23, 2009| 

On Wednesday, Dan Tarullo, a governor of the Federal Reserve and distinguished law school professor, dismissed breaking up big banks as “more a provocative idea... Read »

Breaking Up Big Banks is Necessary, Doable, and Actually Essential

Oct 21, 2009| 

Just when our biggest banks thought they were out of the woods and into the money, the official consensus in their favor begins to crack. The Obama administration’s... Read »

Why is the Chamber of Commerce Refusing to Stand Up for Small Business?

Oct 20, 2009| 

On Warren Olney’s radio show To The Point yesterday, I had a chance to talk with US Chamber of Commerce management directly regarding the issue posed here last... Read »

Who Is Going to Dominate Our Economic and Political Landscape Moving Forward

Oct 17, 2009| 

The US increasingly displays characteristics that we have seen many times in middle-income “emerging markets” – new dimensions of vast inequality, forms of... Read »

Unscrupulous Finance Has Brought Us Down and Will Do It Again

Oct 15, 2009| 3

The US Chamber of Commerce is opposing the administration’s proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, on the grounds that it would hurt small business. Their... Read »

The White House Theory of Bank Size

Oct 13, 2009| 

On Friday morning, Diana Farrell – a senior White House official – made a significant statement on NPR’s Morning Edition, with regard to whether our largest... Read »

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