ALAN BLINDER is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Blinder served as a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers and then as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1993–1996. Blinder has written scores of scholarly articles, and authored or co-authored 21 books, including the best-seller After the Music Stopped (2013) and Advice and Dissent (2018). His latest book, A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021 will be published by Princeton University Press in October.
