2 Quotes & Sayings By Alan B Krueger

Alan B. Krueger is the Robert C. and Nancy D. Rennie Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Princeton University and a former chair of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers Read more

He was also a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from October 2010 to January 2011, while serving as the Chair of the Council while Barack Obama was in office. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 during the Clinton Administration. In addition to publishing more than two dozen articles in professional journals, he co-authored the best-selling book "Expanding Opportunity: The Economics and Politics of Inclusive Growth" with Nobel Prize winning economist James Heckman.

His research has been featured by a number of media outlets, including a cover article in Time, a series on inequality for The New York Times Magazine, a book review in The New Republic by columnist Noam Chomsky, and a feature story in The New York Times Magazine by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz. He holds a BA from Yale University and an MA and PhD from MIT.