Simon Johnson

Former Chief Economist for the International Monetary Fund

Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is a co-founder of BaselineScenario.com and a member of the FDIC’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee. In 2014, he joined the Financial Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research, and from 2009 to 2015, he was a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers. Johnson has published more than 300 high-impact articles on leading news platforms and is the co-author of several books, including “White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You.”

Debates Featuring Simon Johnson

Unresolved: America's Economic Outlook

By most accounts, the American economy is booming — manufacturing is at a 13-year high, unemployment is at a 16-year low, and both the stock market and consumer confidence are soaring. But just what is…

With Jason Furman, Simon Johnson, Stephen Moore, Dambisa Moyo, Gillian Tett

January 16, 2018

Central Banks Can Print Prosperity

Central banks all around the world have been printing money. This policy, known as quantitative easing in banker jargon, has driven up the price of stocks and bonds. But will it lead to real and…

With Roger Bootle, Edward Conard, Andrew Huszar, Simon Johnson

November 18, 2015

Break Up The Big Banks

To prevent the collapse of the global financial system in 2008, the Treasury committed 245 billion taxpayer dollars to stabilize America’s banking institutions. Today, banks that were once “too big to fail” have only grown…

With Douglas Elliott, Richard Fisher, Simon Johnson, Paul Saltzman

October 16, 2013

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Unresolved: America's Economic Outlook

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Break Up The Big Banks

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