Glenn Hubbard (economist)

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Robert Glenn Hubbard (born September 4, 1958 in Orlando , Florida ) is an American economist , university professor and business manager who was also chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers .

Life

University professors and employees in the Ministry of Finance

After attending high school in Apopka , Hubbard studied economics at the University of Central Florida , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA Economics) and a Bachelor of Science (BS Economics) in 1979 . He then continued his studies at Harvard University , where he initially received a Master of Arts (MA Economics) in 1981 and then a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D. Economics) in 1983 .

After assuming a professorship at Northwestern University in Illinois , he has been a research scientist at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1987 . In 1988 he became a professor at Columbia University , where he currently holds the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics.

This teaching he interrupted in 1991 after his appointment as Deputy Under Secretary in the US Treasury ( Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ), where he worked for until 1993 fiscal policy was responsible. During this time he oversaw the efforts of the administration of President George HW Bush in the areas of revenue increases, tax reform and health policy.

After he was between 1994 and 1997 Vice-Dean of the Economics Faculty ( Columbia Business School ). He was also a member of the National Science Foundation's Economic Grants Committee from 1994 to 1996 and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) from 1995 to 2001 . Hubbard was also director of the entrepreneurship program at Columbia Business School from 1998 to 2004.

Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and Dean of Columbia Business School

In February 2001 he became chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and was one of the closest economic policy advisers to President George W. Bush until March 2003 . During this time he was also a member of the US National Security Council .

In 2003 he initially resumed his work as a visiting scientist at the AEI and has since been a member of the National Science Foundation's visitor committee. On July 1, 2004, he became dean of Columbia Business School and has held this position ever since. Hubbard, who has also been a columnist for BusinessWeek, a business magazine published by Bloomberg LP since 2004 , has also held positions in the private sector and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Automatic Data Processing since 2004 , of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company since 2007 and of the media company Dex Media.

He has also been involved in numerous economic institutions and organizations and was a Fellow of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), a member of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future, an organization that supports independent research in the fields of the environment , energy and natural resources , as well as advisor to the World Bank . In addition, Hubbard, who has also been a member of the district committee of the Boy Scouts of America in New York City since 2003 , worked for the Brookings Institution , the Council on Competitiveness and the Economic Club of New York founded in 1907.

In 2010 he appeared in Inside Job , a documentary about the financial crisis that began in 2007 , in which he lost his temper when asked which companies he had advised before the financial crisis.

Publications

  • Economics. Co-author Anthony P. O'Brien, ISBN 978-0136021766 , 3rd edition, 2009
  • The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty. ISBN 978-0231145626 , 2009
  • The Mutual Fund Industry: Competition and Investor Welfare. ISBN 978-0231151825 , 2010
  • Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity. ISBN 978-0137027736 , 2010
  • Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, 2nd Edition: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System. ISBN 978-0817910648 , 2nd edition, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Business Insider: Remember When Glenn Hubbard Freaked Out During His Interview For The Movie "Inside Job?" (February 25, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Hubbard, Glenn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hubbard, Robert Glenn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist, professor, and manager
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Orlando , Florida