Barack Obama on Confronting the Economic Crisis

Barack Obama's Economic policy advisors:

• Jason Furman (director of economy policy) source bio
• Austan Goolsbee (senior economic policy advisor), University of Chicago tax policy expert source Wikipedia website
• Karen Kornbluh (policy director) source bio Wikipedia
• David Cutler, Harvard health policy expert source Wikipedia website
• Jeff Liebman, Harvard welfare expert source Wikipedia website
• Michael Froman, Citigroup executive source bio
• Daniel Tarullo, Georgetown law professor source bio
• David Romer, Berkeley macroeconomist source website
• Christina Romer, Berkeley economic historian source website
• Richard Thaler, University of Chicago behavioral finance expert source Wikipedia
• Robert Rubin, former Treasury Secretary source Wikipedia bio
  

• Larry Summers, former Treasury Secretary source Wikipedia bio
• Alan Blinder, former Vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve source Wikipedia bio website
• Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute labor economist source bio
• James Galbraith, University of Texas macroeconomist source Wikipedia website
• Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve 1979-1987 source Wikipedia
• Laura Tyson, Berkeley international economist, Bill Clinton economic adviser source Wikipedia
• Robert Reich, Berkeley public policy professor, former Secretary of Labor source Wikipedia weblog
• Peter Henry, Stanford international economist source website
• Gene Sperling, former White House economic adviser source Wikipedia

Other prominent economists who support Obama:

• Brad Delong, Berkeley macroeconomist source Wikipedia website weblog
• Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel laureate source Wikipedia
• Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel laureate source Wikipedia
• Ray Fair, Yale macroeconomist source Wikipedia
• Dan McFadden, 2000 Nobel laureate source website
• Robert Solow, 1987 Nobel laureate source Wikipedia

Prominent finance people who support Obama:
(not actually economists)

• William Donaldson, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair 2003-05 source Wikipedia
• Arthur Levitt, SEC chair 1993-2001 source Wikipedia
• David Ruder, SEC chair 1987-1989 source Wikipedia
• Warren Buffet, investor, richest person in world source Wikipedia

Source: Economists For Obama