Martin Feldstein
George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Contact:
Telephone: 617-868-3900
Email: mfeldstein@harvard.edu
Experience
Martin Feldstein is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1982 through 1984, Martin Feldstein was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Reagan's chief economic adviser. He served as President of the American Economic Association in 2004. In 2006, President Bush appointed him to be a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
The National Bureau is a private, nonprofit research organization that has specialized for more than 80 years in producing nonpartisan studies of the American economy.
Dr. Feldstein is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists. He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Group of 30, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Feldstein has received honorary doctorates from several universities and is an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. In 1977, he received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association, a prize awarded every two years to the economist under the age of 40 who is judged to have made the greatest contribution to economic science. He is the author of more than 300 research articles in economics.
Dr. Feldstein is a director of two corporations (American International Group and Eli Lilly), a Governor of the Smith-Richardson Foundation, and an economic adviser to several businesses and government organizations in the United States and abroad. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal.
Martin Feldstein is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University. He was born in New York City in 1939. His wife, Kathleen, is also an economist. The Feldsteins have two grown daughters.
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September 29, 2008
"Problems run deeper than Wall Street"
Op-Ed, The Korea Herald
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
"With less than two months remaining before America's presidential election, much attention is focused on the state of the American economy and the challenges that it will present to the next president."
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September 25, 2008
Feldstein: Everyone has a Stake in Preventing the Financial Markets from Collapsing
In the News
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Martin Feldstein, president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Belfer Center's Board of Directors, gave his take on the most pressing issues facing the United States' economy in an interview with Canada's Business News Network.
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September 18, 2008
The Power of Oil Consumers
Op-Ed
By Henry A. Kissinger and Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
The oil-consuming nations are in a position to shape both the global economic and political balance, provided they coordinate and, to some extent, pool their efforts. America should play a major role in this effort. Rather than wait passively for the next blow to fall, the major consuming nations -- the Group of Seven, together with India, China and Brazil -- should establish a coordinating group to shift the long-term trends of supply and demand in their favor and to end the blackmail of the strong by the weak.
September 2, 2008
"John McCain Has a Tax Plan to Create Jobs"
Op-Ed, The Wall Street Journal
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and John B. Taylor
"John McCain's tax policies are designed to create jobs, increase wages and allow all Americans -- especially those in the hard-pressed middle class -- to keep more of what they earn. His plan achieves these goals in three important ways."
August 27, 2008
"How to shore up America's crumbling housing market"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
"The risk of a downward spiral of house prices is the primary danger facing the American economy. Because of the structure of securitised mortgage finance, this risk has the potential to cause a global financial crisis. Both of these problems will remain until a new policy brings stability to house prices."
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August 7, 2008
"The Crisis: A Tale of Two Monetary Policies"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Martin Feldstein compares and analyzes the European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserves differing approaches at countering the current financial crisis.
Joe Cicak
July 26, 2008
"What is the greenback’s sustainable value?"
Op-Ed, The Japan Times
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Martin Feldstein explains how the falling dollar impacts the value of the U.S.'s imports and exports in the international market and what needs to happen to stop the dollar from falling further.
June 5, 2006
Tradeable Gasoline Rights
Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
May 26, 2006
The Falling Dollar Sets a Test for Asia and Europe
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
February 16, 2006
There's More to Growth Than China
Journal Article, Wall Street Journal
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
