Scott Sumner
Monetary economist known for nominal GDP targeting; writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
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- Scott Sumner is an American monetary economist.
- He taught for 33 years at Bentley University and later directed the Program on Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
- His blog The Money Illusion, started during the 2008 financial crisis, popularised nominal GDP level targeting and the school known as market monetarism.
- He now writes The Pursuit of Happiness on Substack, on monetary economics and wider topics.
Key facts
- Born
- 1955; grew up in Madison, Wisconsin2
- Education
- PhD economics, University of Chicago (1985)1
- Taught
- Bentley College, later Bentley University, for 33 years2
- Books
- The Midas Paradox (2015); The Money Illusion (2021); Alternative Approaches to Monetary Policy (2023)1
- Recognition
- Foreign Policy's top global thinkers, 15th jointly with Ben Bernanke (2012)1
- Writes
- The Pursuit of Happiness (Substack); earlier the blog The Money Illusion2
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