Simon Johnson

Simon Johnson, the former chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund, is the co-author of “13 Bankers.” An informative and potentially productive political debate has broken out over fiscal policy. But it is not between Democra…

Tyler Cowen’s essay in the latest American Interest is nominally about Income Inequality, but really it’s about the pernicious role that big finance plays in modern political economy. Cowen isn’t worried about inequality per se, …

Why is it that Economists don't understand - at a deep and scientific level - how The Economy works? Two centuries after Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," and more than seven decades after the Great Depression, they…

Downtown New York was empty over the long Independence Day weekend. There were no Bankers around to breathe the heavy air. Manhattan was warm pudding. Late one afternoon, off with his family, a former senior Lehman Brothers executive was on the p…

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what Progressives need to affect Change on the kitchen-table issues families face: Jobs, Health Care, green Energy, Financial Reform, affordable education and Retirement Security. "America Spe…

This post originally appeared on The Baseline Scenario . The president should nominate Paul Krugman to replace Peter Orszag as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). (Orszag Resignation details are here.) We have previously …

By Simon Johnson.…