David Cutler (economist)

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David Matthew Cutler (born 1965 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American economist and university professor .

Career, research and teaching

Cutler studied at Harvard University , which he left in 1987 with an Artium Baccalaureus in the direction of MIT . There he graduated in 1991 as a Ph.D. in economics.

Cutler then returned to Harvard, where he initially worked as an assistant professor and from 1995 as an associate professor . In 1997, he was appointed full professor in the college's business school and Kennedy School of Government . In 2005 he took over the Otto Eckstein Professorship at the teaching institution.

Cutler's research and teaching focus is on health economics and public-sector economics . For this purpose, he published on various topics, in particular on the costs and expenditures for the health system as a whole. He also made a name for himself outside the university framework and was one of the most important advisors to President Bill Clinton as well as to the election campaigns of Bill Bradley and John Kerry . In 2008, Barack Obama also brought him into his advisory group for the presidential candidacy. In the discussions about the reform of the US health system in 2010 and the subsequent constitutional lawsuit, he regularly spoke up.

He has also been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007 . From 1996 to 1998 he was a Sloan Research Fellow .

Works

The following is a list of books published by Cutler, as well as the author of numerous magazine articles and working papers.

  • as editor with David Wise: Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly. 2009.
  • Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System. 2004.
  • as editor: The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Hospitals. 1999.
  • as editor with Ernst Berndt: Medical Care Output and Productivity. 2001.
  • as editor with Alan Garber and from 2006 Dana Goldman : Frontiers in Health Policy Research. Volume 6 through Volume 10, 2003 through 2007.

literature

  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 4th edition. Elgar, Cheltenham et al. 2003, ISBN 1-84064-992-5 , pp. 187-188.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obama's economic advisers are brainy academics. on: mcclatchydc.com April 4, 2008, accessed July 5, 2012.
  2. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed August 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cutler, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cutler, David Matthew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio