Alan S. Blinder

Alan S. Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1971. He served on President Clinton's first Council of Economic Advisers and was vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1994 to 1996. A specialist in monetary policy and central banking, he also writes for general readers, including a regular Wall Street Journal column, and is an author of the textbook Economics: Principles and Policy.