To see the official letter in support of Janet Yellen for Fed chair, signed by 505 economists, and sent to the White House on September 18, click here. These economists come from across the country, with 48 states and the District of Colombia represented, as well as 211 colleges and universities.

Dear President Obama:
We the undersigned economists, with both academic and practitioner interests in public policy, respectfully urge you to appoint Janet Yellen as the next Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
While there are many reasons to select Janet Yellen for this position, we would like to emphasize three of them.
Dr. Yellen is superbly qualified.  She has shown consistently good judgment in all her roles leading our nation’s financial institutions and economic policy, first as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), then as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and now as Vice Chair of the FRB.  While leading the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank in 2005, she warned of an impending real estate meltdown as asset prices rose unrealistically. Dr. Yellen was one of the first members of the Federal Open Market Committee to realize that the financial sector’s difficulties in 2007 could cause a major recession, and she worked to focus her colleagues on the problems of the housing sector.  Her knowledge of how the Fed sets policy, her understanding of the relationship between monetary policy and economic growth, and her ability to see and propose solutions to emerging economic problems is second to none.
Dr. Yellen is willing to hear multiple points of view and to bring many voices into the policymaking arena.  She is not beholden to a single interest group, nor to a single industry. There is less and less room in modern public policymaking, especially at the FRB, for a single leader to dominate discussion.  Modern policymaking, in a world filled with uncertainties and complexities, must proceed through cooperation and consensus, led by effective leaders.  Dr. Yellen has demonstrated the ability to hear all points of view and then act effectively at the FRB.
In her public speeches and scholarly writings, Dr. Yellen demonstrates a clear and nuanced understanding of labor markets, including why they do not always generate enough jobs. As our weak recovery enters into its fifth year of slow economic growth, a continued commitment to expanding jobs through appropriate policy is a must for the next FRB Chair. Dr. Yellen has demonstrated this commitment and understanding in her recent public speeches and actions at the FRB.
In conclusion, we believe that Janet Yellen is an extremely effective leader who has demonstrated her capacity to work with the other FRB governors and to bring important perspectives of the American people to her leadership and decisions.  In our opinion, she is the best possible leader for the Federal Reserve Board at this critical time in our nation’s history.
Sincerely,
Heidi Hartmann
President, Institute for Women’s Policy Research*
Research Professor, The George Washington University
Mac Arthur Fellow
Joyce Jacobsen
Dean of Social Sciences and Andrews Professor of Economics
Wesleyan University
*organization for identification purposes only
Signatures as of 9/8/13:
Alan S. Blinder
Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Professor of Economics
Boston University
Lisa M. Lynch
Dean and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Valerie A. Ramey
Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego
Alice M. Rivlin
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program
Brookings Institution
William M. Rodgers III
Professor of Public Policy and Chief Economist, Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers University
Christina D. Romer
Class of 1957 – Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
David H. Romer
Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy
University of California, Berkeley
Stephen J. Rose
Research Professor and Senior Economist
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
Joseph E. Stiglitz
University Professor, Columbia University
Nobel Laureate in Economics
Laura D. Tyson
Professor of Business Administration and Economics
Haas Business and Public Policy Group
University of California, Berkeley
 
Additional Signatures as of 9/8/2013 and 9/9/2013:

Caren Grown
Economist-In-Residence
Dept of Economics
American University

 

Susan Averett
Dana Professor
Department of Economics
Lafayette College

 

Randy Albelda
Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston
Erin K. Fletcher
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
Lafayette College

 

Steven Pressman
Professor of Economics & Finance
Monmouth University
Toni M. Whited
Michael and Diane Jones Professor of Business Administration
Simon School of Business
University of Rochester
Julie A. Nelson
Professor and Chair of Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston
Juliet Schor
Department of Sociology
Boston College
Robert A. Blecker
Professor of Economics
American University

 

Sule Ozler, PhD, and PsyD
Associate Professor of Economics, UCLA
& Psychoanalyst, New Center for Psychoanalysis

 

Susan Feiner
Professor of Economics
University of Southern Maine

 

Karine S. Moe
F.R. Bigelow Professor of Economics
Macalester College

 

Shelly Lundberg
Leonard Broom Professor of Demography
Department of Economics
University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Ralph Bradburd
Professor of Economics
Williams College

 

Lori Kletzer
Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of Faculty
Professor of Economics
Colby College

 

Michael C. Lovell
Chester E. Hubbard Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics
Wesleyan University

 

Elizabeth J. Jensen
Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Economics
Hamilton College

 

Michael Kevane
Dept. of Economics
Santa Clara University

 

Mary Huff Stevenson
Professor of Economics Emerita
University of Massachusetts Boston

 

Mieke Meurs
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
American University

 

Joshua Rosenbloom
Professor of Economics
University of Kansas

 

Deborah M. Figart, PhD
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Christopher Kilby
Associate Professor of Economics
Villanova University

 

Lalith Munasinghe
Professor
Department of Economics, Barnard College, and School of International & Public Affairs
Columbia University

 

Robert J. Shiller
Sterling Professor of economics
Yale University

 

Jon D. Wisman
Professor of Economics
American University

 

Anne Villamil
Professor of Economics
University of Illinois

 

Bevin Ashenmiller
Associate Professor of Economics
Occidental College

 

Keren Horn
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston

 

Pao-Lin Tien
Assistant Professor of Economics
Wesleyan University

 

Catherine C. Eckel
Sara and John Lindsey Professor
Department of Economics
Texas A&M University

 

Marjorie Flavin
Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego

 

David A. Anderson
Paul G. Blazer Professor
Department of Economics
Centre College

 

Olivia S Mitchell
Economist
Harvard class of ‘74

 

Siobhan Reilly
Professor of Economics
Mills College

 

Susan Pozo, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Graduate Programs
Department of Economics
Western Michigan University

 

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies Department
Rutgers University

 

Deirdre N. McCloskey
UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication
University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Jennifer Olmsted
Professor of Economics
Drew University

 

Sarah E. West
Professor of Economics
Macalester College

 

Roger Sparks
Professor of Economics
Mills College

 

T. D. Stanley
Professor of Economics
Hendrix College

 

Professor John Rust
Department of Economics
Georgetown University

 

Alexander J. Field
Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics
Santa Clara University

 

Evan Kraft
Economist-in-Residence
American University

 

Denise Hare
Dr. Lester B. Lave Professor of Economics
Reed College

 

Maximilian Auffhammer
George Pardee Jr. Professor of Sustainable International Development
University of California, Berkeley

 

Chris Georges
Professor of Economics
Hamilton College

 

Adhip Chaudhuri
Professor of Economics
Georgetown University

 

Eleanor Brown
James Irvine Professor of Economics
Pomona College

 

Anne E. Winkler
Professor of Economics & Public Policy Administration
University of Missouri-St. Louis

 

Brenda Wyss
Associate Professor of Economics
Wheaton College, MA

 

Dean Baker
Co-Director
Center for Economic and Policy Research

 

Marilyn Power
Professor of Economics
Sarah Lawrence College

 

Kenneth D. West
Ragnar Frisch and John D. MacArthur Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin – Madison

 

Lourdes Benería
Professor Emerita
Cornell University

 

Mwangi wa Githinji
Economics Department
University of Massachusetts-Amherst

 

Robert S. Woodward, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Care Economics
University of New Hampshire

 

Gregory N. Price, Ph.D
Charles E. Merrill Professor & Chair
Department of Economics
Morehouse College

 

Eileen Appelbaum
Senior Economist
Center for Economic and Policy Research

 

Kimberly Christensen
Economics
Sarah Lawrence College

 

Torsten Schmidt
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics
University of New Hampshire

 

Dania V. Francis
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Peter Hans Matthews
Christian A. Johnson Professor of Economics
Chair, Department of Economics
Middlebury College

 

Michele I. Naples
Associate Professor
The College of New Jersey

 

Nancy Scannell, Ph.D.
Univ of Illinois Springfield

 

Diana Strassmann
Carolyn and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor in the Practice
Editor, Feminist Economics
Rice University

 

Joseph Persky
Department of Economics
University of Illinois at Chicago

 

Peter Skott
Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Peter Hess
Gail M. and Ernest G. Doe Professor of Economics
Davidson College

 

David Danning
Lecturer
Economics Dept.
University of Massachusetts, Boston

 

William Van Lear
Economics Professor
Belmont Abbey College

 

Myra H Strober
Professor Emerita
Stanford University

 

Anne M. McCarthy, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor of Management
Hamline University School of Business

 

Gerald Friedman
Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

John Miller
Professor of Economics
Wheaton College

 

John Schmitt
Senior Economist
Center for Economic and Policy Research

 

Saul H. Hymans
Professor of Economics
& Director Emeritus RSQE
University of Michigan

 

John Weeks
Professor Emeritus of Economics
University of London, UK
(Vermont Resident)

 

Vivian Ho
Professor of Economics and Baker Institute Chair in Health Economics
Rice University

 

Dr. Janet Spitz
Assoc. Professor of Business and Economics
The College of Saint Rose

 

Scott E Page
Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor
Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

 

Nancy E. Rose
Professor Emeritus
California State University, San Bernardino

 

Carolyn Sherwood Call, Ph.D.
Asst Dean & MBA Academic Director
Visiting Assistant Professor
Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business
Mills College

 

Peter B. Meyer
Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Economics
University of Louisville
President and Chief Economist
The E.P. Systems Group, Inc

 

Professor Teresa Ghilarducci
Chair of the Economics Department and Director of the Schwartz Center For Economic Policy Analysis,
New School for Social Research

 

Barbara R. Bergmann
Professor Emerita, Economics
University of Maryland and American University

 

Sanford M. Jacoby
Distinguished Professor
UCLA

 

Professor Maria S. Floro
Department of Economics
American University

 

Joni Hersch
Professor of Law and Economics
Vanderbilt University

 

David Gleicher
Associate Professor
Adelphi University

 

Robert Buchele
Department of Economics
Smith College

 

Fabio Schiantarelli
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Boston College

 

Jane D’Arista
Research Associate
Political Economy Research Institute
University of Massachusetts/Amherst

 

Ethan Kaplan
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Maryland – College Park

 

Marie Christine Duggan
Professor of Economics
Keene State College

 

Roberto Veneziani
Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

Bijou Yang Lester, Ph.D
Professor of Economics
LeBow College of Business
Drexel University

 

Paul Gertler
Li Ka Shing Professor
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

 

K. K. Fung
Professor Emeritus of Economics
University of Memphis

 

Rachel Cleetus, Ph.D.
Senior Climate Economist, Climate and Energy Program
Union of Concerned Scientists

 

Dr. David Laibman
Professor Emeritus, Economics
Brooklyn College and Graduate School
City University of New York

 

Maurice Obstfeld
Class of 1958 Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

 

Spencer J. Pack
Professor of Economics
Connecticut College

 

Elissa Braunstein
Associate Professor
Dept of Economics
Colorado State University

 

Michael Reich
Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

 

Elaine McCrate
Associate Professor
Economics and Women’s Studies
University of Vermont

 

Jean Kimmel
Professor of Economics
Western Michigan University

 

Andrew K. Rose
Rocca Professor, Associate Dean, and Chair of the Faculty
Haas School of Business
University of California

 

David I. Levine
Trefethen Professor of Business Administration
Haas School of Business
University of California

 

Linda Kamas
Associate Professor
Economics Department
Santa Clara University

 

Paul A. Johnson
Professor of Economics
Vassar College

 

Clair Brown
Professor of Economics
Director, Center for Work, Technology, and Society
University of California, Berkeley

 

Michael D. Goldberg
Todd H. Crockett Professor of Economics
Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics
University of New Hampshire
Senior Research Associate
Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

 

Michael L. Lahr
Associate Research Professor
Rurtgers Economic Adfvisory Service, Associate Director
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

 

Karen Smith Conway
Professor of Economics
University of New Hampshire

 

Aaron Pacitti
Assistant Professor of Economics
Siena College

 

Andrea L. Ziegert
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Economics
Denison University

 

David A. Jaeger
Professor of Economics
City University of New York Graduate Center

 

Harry J. Holzer
Professor of Public Policy
Georgetown University

 

Dr. Ted P. Schmidt
Associate Professor, Department of Economics & Finance
Buffalo State College

 

Robert Pollin
Professor of Economics and
Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute
University of Masschusetts-Amherst

 

Ebru Kongar
Associate Professor of Economics
Dickinson College

 

Alicia H. Munnell
Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences
Boston College Carroll School of Management

 

Judith Robinson
Professor, Economics
Castleton State College

 

Randall P. Ellis
Professor of Economics
Boston University

 

Arthur MacEwan
Professor Emeritus of Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston

 

Thomas Michl
Professor of Economics
Colgate University

 

Kathy Hayes
Professor of Economics
Southern Methodist University

 

Professor Catherine Lynde
Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston

 

Ulla Grapard
Professor of Economics and Women’s Studies
Colgate University

 

Matías Vernengo
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Bucknell University

 

Anne Mayhew
Professor Emerita
University of Tennessee

 

Jenny Keil, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics and Management
Hamline University

 

Dr. Julie Heath 
Director, Economics Center and
Professor, Alpaugh Family Chair in Economics
University of Cincinnati

 

Martin Ravallion
Professor of Economics
Georgetown University

 

Nancy Folbre
Professor Emerita
University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Mark A. Price
Labor Economist
Keystone Research Center

 

Ida A. Mirzaie, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Department of Economics
The Ohio State University

 

Ann Owen
Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics
Hamilton College

 

Thomas E. Weisskopf
Professor Emeritus of Economics
University of Michigan

 

Christopher Magee
Professor of Economics
Bucknell University

 

Michael Sattinger
Professor of Economics
University at Albany, State University of New York

 

Kevin P. Gallagher, PhD
Global Economic Governance Initiative
Department of International Relations
Boston University

 

Andrew F Newman
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Boston University

 

Lynn Duggan
Associate Professor
Labor Studies Department
Indiana University

 

Dr Leanne Ussher
Assistant Professor of Economics
Queens College, City University of New York

 

Marcellus Andrews
Professor of Economics
Bucknell University

 

Julie K.  Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Lafayette College

 

Russell Williams
Associate Professor of Economics
Wheaton College

 

James A. Wilcox
Professor of Finance and Economics
Berkeley-Haas School of Business

 

Charles Barone
Professor of Economics
Dickinson College

 

Amitava Krishna Dutt
Professor of Economics and Political Science
University of Notre Dame

 

David R. Howell
Professor and Director, Doctoral Program in Public and Urban Policy
The New School

 

Thomas E. Lambert, PhD
MPA Program
Northern Kentucky University

 

Jennifer Cohen
Assistant Professor of Economics
Whitman College

 

Chris Tilly
Professor of Urban Planning and Sociology
Director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
UCLA

 

Mohamed El-Hodiri
Professor of Economics
University of Kansas

 

John R. Harris
Professor of Economics
Boston University

 

Blair Sandler
Ph.D. Economics, UMass Amherst
J.D. UC Hastings College of the Law

 

Paul Swanson
Professor of Economics
William Paterson University

 

Eric Nilsson
Professor of Economics
California State University San Bernardino

 

Gary Solon
Professor of Economics
Michigan State University

 

William James Adams
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Director, Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Director, Undergraduate Studies in Economics
University of Michigan

 

Nina Banks
Associate Professor of Economics
Bucknell University

 

Thomas L. Hungerford
Senior Economist and Director of Tax and Budget Policy
Economic Policy Institute

 

Dan Owens
Economic History and Macroeconomics Lecturer
The University of Kansas

 

Ross M. Starr
Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego

 

Gerald Epstein
Professor of Economics and Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

Richard A. Miller
Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics emeritus
Wesleyan University

 

Bronwyn H. Hall
Professor of Economics Emerita
University of California at Berkeley

 

Jasmin Ansar
Visiting Assistant Professor
Economics Department,
Mills College

 

Ron Baiman
Assistant Professor of Economics
Graduate Business Administration
Benedictine University

 

Sylvia A. Allegretto, PhD
Economist
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
University of California, Berkeley

 

Dr. Howard Stein (Ph.D. Economics)
Professor, 
Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Adjunct Professor, 
Department of Epidemiology
University of Michigan

 

Monique Morrissey
Economist
Economic Policy Institute

 

Samuel Rosenberg
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Economics
Roosevelt University

 

Jonathan S. Leonard
Professor
Haas School of Business
University of California

 

Caitlin Knowles Myers
Associate Professor of Economics
Middlebury College

 

Dr. Mathew Forstater
Professor of Economics
University of Missouri—Kansas City

 

Antonio Callari
Sigmund M. and Mary B. Hyman Professor of Economics
Franklin and Marshall College

 

Reza Fazeli,PhD
Lecturer
Department of Economics
University of California, Irvine

 

Dr. Margaret Ray
Professor of Economics
University of Mary Washington

 

Frank Thompson. Ph.D.
Lecturer, Research Investigator
Department of Economics
University of Michigan

 

David Gold
Associate Professor, International Affairs Program
The New School

 

Heidi Shierholz, Ph.D.
Economist
Economic Policy Institute

 

Esther Redmount
Associate Professor, Economics
Colorado College

 

Bisakha Sen, Ph.D
Professor
Healthcare Organization & Policy
University of Alabama at Birmingham

 

Fidan Ana Kurtulus
Associate Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst and Wertheim Fellow at Harvard Law School

 

Prof. Bryan Snyder
Bentley University

 

William Brainard
Arthur M Okun  Professor of Economics Emeritus
Yale University

 

Kathryn Anderson
Professor of Economics
Vanderbilt University

 

Ray Fair
Professor of Economics
Yale University

 

Farida C. Khan
Professor of Economics
Director, Center for International Studies
University of Wisconsin-Parkside

 

Robin Hahnel
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics
American University

 

Richard E. Bilsborrow
Professor of Biostatistics, Adjunct Professor of Economics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil

 

Dr. William Barclay
Retired Sr. VP, Chicago Stock Exchange
Adjunct Prof. UIC’s Liautaud Graduate School of Business – Corporate MBA Program
Founding Member, Chicago Political Economy Group

 

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Professor of Economics and Kirby L. Cramer, Jr. Professor of Business Administration
James Madison University

 

Paul Wolfson
Senior Statistical Research Associate
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College

 

Nicole Simpson
Associate Professor of Economics
Colgate University

Additional Signatures as of 9/9/2013 and 9/10/2013:

Mary C. King, Professor
Dept. of Economics
Portland State University

 

John Luke Gallup
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Portland State University

 

Jeffrey O’Hara
Agricultural Economist
Food & Environment Program
Union of Concerned Scientists

 

Laurence Shute, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Economics
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

 

Jesse Rothstein
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics
Acting Director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
University of California, Berkeley

 

John P. Bonin
Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Science
Co-Chair, College of Social Studies
Wesleyan University

 

Gary A. Dymski
Professor, Department of Economics
University of California, Riverside

 

Prof. Richard Parker
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

 

Michael Meeropol
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Western New England University

 

Kranti Mulik
Senior Economist
Food & Environment Program
Union of Concerned Scientists

 
Barry Shelley
 

Tim Koechlin
Director, International Studies Program
Vassar College

 

Rick McGahey
Professor of Public Policy and Economics
The New School

 

Michael Woodford
John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy
Columbia University

 

Gabriel Mathy
Assistant Professor of Economics
American University

 

James Hamilton
Professor of Economics
University of California at San Diego

 

Günseli Berik
Professor
Economics Department
University of Utah

 

Eirik Evenhouse
Associate Professor of Economics
Mills College

 

Gail Blattenberger
Associate Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics
University of Utah

 

Steve Cohn
Professor of Economics
Knox College

 

Andrew I. Kohen
Professor Emeritus of Economics
James Madison University

 

Wendy Rayack
Associate Professor of Economics
Wesleyan University

 

David A. Belsley
Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics
Boston College

 

Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Immediate Past President, National Economic Association
Political Economist and Associate Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development
Department of Africana Studies
John Jay College, CUNY

 

Candace Howes
Ferrin Professor of Economics and Chair, Department of Economics
Connecticut College

 

Professor Ilene Grabel
Josef Korbel School of International Studies
University of Denver

 

Phanindra V. Wunnava
David K. Smith ’42 Chair in Applied Economics
Middlebury College

 

Mark Setterfield
Maloney Family Distinguished Professor of Economics,
Charles A. Dana Research Professor of Economics, and Chair
Department of Economics
Trinity College

 

Carmen Diana Deere
Distinguished Professor of Food & Resource Economics and Latin American Studies
University of Florida

 

Professor Stephany Griffith-Jones
Financial Markets Director
Initiative for Policy Dialogue
Columbia University

 

Martha L. Olney
Adjunct Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

 

Peter Philips, Ph.D.
Professor
Economics Department
University of Utah

 

Eiman Zein-Elabdin
Professor of Economics
Franklin & Marshall College

 

Barry Herman
Visiting Senior Fellow
Julien J Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs
The New School for Public Engagement

 

David Kiefer
Professor
Economics Department
University of Utah

 

Michael J. Roberts
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

Don Goldstein
AW Robertson Professor of Economics
Allegheny College

 

M. V. Lee Badgett
Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Eric Verhoogen
Associate Professor
Economics and SIPA
Columbia University

 

Andra Ghent
Assistant Professor
Department of Finance
W.P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University

 

Dilip Mookherjee
Professor of Economics
Boston University

 

Jean Shackelford
Professor of Economics, Emerita
Bucknell University

 

James E. Anderson
William B. Neenan S.J. Millennium Professor of Economics
Boston College

 

Lawrence Mishel
President
Economic Policy Institute

 

Menzie D. Chinn
Professor of Public Affairs and Economics
University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

Gerard Roland
E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and Professor of Political science
University of California, Berkeley

 

Jonathan Cogliano
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Dickinson College

 

Dorene Isenberg
Professor of Economics
University of Redlands

 

Kathy Baylis
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

Carl Bonham. Executive Director
University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization
Professor, Department of Economics
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Gautham Sethi
Associate Professor of Economics & Econometrics
Center for Environmental Policy, Bard College

 

Larry Sawers, Professor
Department of Economics, Kreeger 120
American University

 

Assoc. Prof John Golden
Dept of Economics
Allegheny College

 

Scott A. Weir
Wake Technical Community College

 

Brent Kramer
Senior Economist
Fiscal Policy Institute

 

Amanda Bayer
Associate Professor of Economics
Swarthmore College

 

Gavin Wright
Department of Economics
Stanford University

 

Heather L.R. Tierney, Ph.D.
Economics Author
Sapling Learning

 

JIm Campen,
Prof of Economics, Emeritus
Univ of Massachusetts Boston

 

Catherine Wolfram
Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

 

Douglas V. Orr
Professor of Economics
City College of San Francisco

 

Mark Gertler
Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economics
New York University

 

Pete Klenow
Professor of Economics
Stanford University

 

Lorenzo Garbo
Professor
Department of Economics
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Redlands

 

Steve Parker
Project Director and Resident Trade Advisor
U.S.-Laos International and ASEAN Integration Project (LUNA-Lao)

 

Dan Kovenock
Professor of Economics
Chapman University

 

Roger Even Bove
Department of Economics & Finance (emeritus)
West Chester University

 

Douglas H. Frank
Associate Professor of Economics
Allegheny College

 

Robert Haveman
John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Professor
Graduate Program in International Affairs
The New School University

 

Kade Finnoff
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston

 

Benjamin E. Hermalin
Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

 

K.C. Fung
Professor of Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz

 

James Tober
Senior Faculty in Economics
Marlboro College

 

Dr. Jeanne Koopman
Research Fellow
Boston University African Studies Center

 

Ken Kuttner
Professor of Economics
Williams College

 

JK Kapler
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts Boston

 

Robin L. Bartlett
JP Morgan Chase Professor of Economics
Denison University
Miguel D. Ramirez
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Trinity College

 

Susanto Basu
Professor, Department of Economics
Boston College

 

Peter Gottschalk
Research Professor of Economics
Boston College

 

Marta Murray-Close
Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy
University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Can Erbil
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Boston College
Senior Lecturer, International Business School, Brandeis University

 

Leigh A. Riddick
Associate Professor of Finance
Kogod School of Business
American University

 

Yunsun Huh
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Economics, Dept. of Democracy & Justice Studies
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

 

Karen Pfeifer
Professor Emerita of Economics
Smith College

 

Professor John Leahy
Department of Economics
New York University

 

Michael Ash
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Andrew Zimbalist
Professor of Economics
Smith College

 

Charles Engel
Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin – Madison

 

Edward Miguel
Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

 

Lucia F. Dunn
Professor of Economics
Ohio State University

 

Lara Shore-Sheppard
Professor of Economics
Williams College

 

Martha Campbell
Associate Professor, Economics
SUNY Potsdam

 

Catherine L. Mann
Barbara ’54 and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance
Director, Rosenberg Institute for Global Finance
International Business School, Brandeis University
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

 

Andrew Reschovsky
Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

 

Lloyd J. Dumas,
Professor of Economics and Public Policy
University of Texas at Dallas

 

Rick Eichhorn
Henry B. Tippie Associate Professor of Business and Economics
Stead Family Department of Business and Economics
Coe College

 

Mark Thoma
Department of Economics
University of Oregon

 

Elizabeth Savoca
Professor of Economics
Smith College

Additional signatures as of 9/16/2013:

Carol Graham
Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
College Park Professor, University of Maryland

 

Ellen Houston
Adjunct Professor of Economics
New York University

 

Nola Reinhardt
Professor of Economics
Director, Global South Development Studies Program
Smith College

 

Irina A. Telyukova
Assistant Professor, Economics
Univeristy of California, San Diego

 

Radhika Balakrishnan
Rutgers University

 

Sharon Oster
Professor of Economics
Yale School of Management
Yale University

 

Michael Nuwer
Professor of Economics
State University of New York at Potsdam

 

John B. Chilton
Collateral Faculty
Department of Economics
Virginia Commonwealth University

 

David A. Miller
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Michigan

 

Norman Maynard
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics and Finance
College of Charleston

 

Sandra E. Black
Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs
Department of Economics
University of Texas

 

Dr. Tonia L. Warnecke
Associate Professor of Business and Social Entrepreneurship
Rollins College

 

Rafat Fazeli
Professor of Economics
University of Redlands

 

Alice Louise Kassens
John S. Shannon Endowed Professor of Economics
Roanoke College

 

Chetan Dave
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Virginia Tech

 

James T. Bang
Assistant Professor of Economics
St. Ambrose University

 

Laura Giuliano
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Miami

 

Cihan Bilginsoy
Professor of Economics
University of Utah

 

Stephen Oliner
Senior Fellow, UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

 

Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

 

Stuart A. Gabriel
Professor of Finance and Arden Realty Chair
Anderson School of Mangement
University of California, Los Angeles

 

E. Glen Weyl
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Chicago

 

Abigail S. Hornstein
Assistant Professor of Economics
Wesleyan University

 

Malcolm Robinson
Professor of Economics
Thomas More College

 

Julia M. Chismar
AP Economics
Saint Joseph High School, South Bend, IN
2010 Fed Challenge National Champion Advisor

 

Jonathan Wilner
Professor of Economics
Oklahoma City University

 

James Morley (U.S. Citizen)
Professor of Economics
Australian School of Business
The University of New South Wales

 

Nasrin Shahinpoor
Professor of Economics and International Studies
Hanover College

 

Julie Lynn Coronado
Chief Economist North America
BNP Paribas

 

Steven C. Salop
Professor of Economics and Law
Georgetown University Law Center

 

Ranjit Dighe
Professor and Chair of Economics
State University of New York at Oswego

 

Margaret S. Coleman
PhD 
Economist/Health Scientist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

Dr. Peter M. Summers
Phillips School of Business
High Point University

 

Dani Rodrik
Albert O. Hirschman Professor in the School of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study

 

Luke Armstrong
Economics Instructor
Social and Behavioral Sciences Division
Lee College

 

Daniel Altman
Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics
Stern School of Business, New York University

 

Josh Bivens
Research and Policy Director
Economic Policy Institute

 

Dr. Thomas Creahan
Associate Professor of Economics
Morehead State University

 

Carmen Barker Lemay, Ph.D.
President & CEO, Integrative Growth

 

Mary G. McGarvey
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

Jodi Beggs
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Northeastern University

 

Judith R Gelman
VP, Salop Economics, Inc

 

Dr. Stefan C. Mullinax
Assistant Professor of Economics
College of Lake County

 

Richard K Green
Lusk Chair in Real Estate
University of Southern California

 

Kathryn Birkeland
Assistant Professor of Economics
Beacom School of Business
University of South Dakota

 

Austin Kelly
Associate Director – retired
US government

 

Dr. George Pidot
Vice Chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago (retired)

 

Mandie R. Weinandt
Instructor, Economics and Decision Sciences
Beacom School of Business
University of South Dakota

 

Michael S. Visser
Associate Professor of Economics
Sonoma State University

 

Charles P. Staelin
Professor of Economics
Smith College
Morris A. Davis
James A. Graaskamp Chair in Real Estate
Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics
Wisconsin School of Business
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Thomas Masterson
Research Scholar and Director of Micromodelling
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

 

Ryan Herzog
Assistant Professor of Economics
Gonzaga University

 

Michael Margolis
Assistant Professor of Economics
Gettysburg College

 

Kathryn Graddy
Chair and Fred and Rita Richman Distinguished Professor of Economics
Brandeis University

 

John Kane, Professor
Department of Economics
State University of New York at Oswego

 

Leah Marcal
Professor of Economics
California State University, Northridge

 

Michael Enz
Associate Professor of Economics
Framingham State University

 

Susan Dynarski
Professor of Economics, Education and Public Policy
University of Michigan

 

Dr. M Halim Dalgin
Department of Business Administration
College of Business
Kutztown University

 

Daniel Kuehn
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Economics
American University

 

Corrine Hansen Taylor
Director, Lee Day Gillespie ’49 Quantitative Reasoning Program
and Adjunct Professor of Economics
Wellesley College

 

Jay Shambaugh
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
George Washington University

 

Paul N. Courant
Harold T. Shapiro Professor of Public Policy
Professor of Economics and Information
The University of Michigan

 

Daniel A. Pavsek, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Harry F. Byrd, Jr. School of Business
Shenandoah University

 

Gregory DeFreitas
Professor of Economics,
Director, Labor Studies Program
and Director, Center for Study of Labor and Democracy
Hofstra University

 

Marlene Kim
Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston

 

Julie Matthaei
Professor of Economics
Wellesley College

 

Rania Antonopoulos
Senior Scholar
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

 

Annie Voy
Assistant Professor of Economics
Gonzaga University

 

Michael Klein
Wm. L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs
Fletcher School
Tufts University

 

Angela de Oliveira
Assistant Professor of Resource Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Christian Hellwig (U.S. Citizen)
Professor of Economics
Toulouse School of Economics

 

Carol Zabin
Research Director
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education

 

Santiago LiIboreiro
Senior Economist
CEMEX USA
John P. Burkett
Department of Economics
University of Rhode Island

 

Robert J. Gitter
Professor of Economics
Ohio Wesleyan Univeristy

 

Amy Ellen Schwartz
Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics
New York University

 

David Huffman
Associate Professor of Economics
Bridgewater College

 

Kenneth A. Reinert
Professor of Public Policy
Director, International Commerce and Policy Program
School of Public Policy
George Mason University

 

Ellen Mutari
Professor of Economics
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

 

Robert G. Murphy
Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the International Studies Program
Boston College

 

Stephen D. Williamson
Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

 

David Frame
Assistant Professor of Real Estate
Zicklin School of Business
Baruch College/CUNY

 

Prof. Adriana Kugler
Vice-Provost and Professor of Public Policy
Georgetown University

 

Dr. Michael Pomerleano
Retired, World Bank

 

Donald R. van Deventer
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Kamakura Corporation

 

Dr. James Brock
Moeckel Professor
Economics Department
Miami University

 

Norris Peterson
Prof. of Economics
Pacific Lutheran University

 

Vange Mariet Ocasio
Assistant Professor of Economics
Whitworth University

 

Milton D. Lower, Ph.D.
Retired Senior Economist
Energy and Commerce Committee
US House of Representatives

 

Roy J. Rotheim
Professor of Economics
Skidmore College

 

Arthur I. Strang III, Ph.D.
Cambridge, MA

 

Susan Skeath
Professor of Economics
Wellesley College

 

Ian Strachan
Keith T. Anderson Assistant Professor of Economics & Finance
Nichols College

 

Stephen Nicar
Assistant Professor of Economics
Franklin & Marshall College

 

Dr.Jeff Strohl
Director of Research
Center on Education and the Workforce
Georgetown University

 

Mary E. Graham
Professor of Sport Management
Syracuse University

 

Rick Welsh
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs, Food Studies
Dept. of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition
Syracuse University

 

Catherine S. Norman
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering and Department of Economics
The Johns Hopkins University
Arthur Benavie
Professor of Economics Emeritus
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Philip Kozel
Chair and Professor of Economics
Rollins College

 

Mark A. Lemley
William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School
Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

 

Darwin C. Hall
Professor of Economics Emeritus
Founding Director of Environmental Science and Policy
California State University Long Beach

 

Ann Velenchik
Associate Professor of Economics
Wellesley College

 

Frederick J. Zimmerman
Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Fielding School of Public Health
UCLA

 

Dr. Barbara R. Lowrey
Former Associate Secretary of the Federal Reserve Board

 

Jane V. Hall
Professor of Economics Emerita
Founding Director, Institute for Economic and Environmental Studies
California State University, Fullerton

 

Shyamala Raman
Professor of Economics and International Studies
University of Saint Joseph

 

David C Campbell Ph. D.
Consultant, Economics of Environmental Policy
Los Angeles, CA

 

Marianne Hill
Senior Economist Emerita
University Research Center
Mississippi Board of Public Universities

 

Johannes Schmieder
Assistant Professor of Economics
Boston University

 

Matthew Berman
Professor of Economics
Institute of Social and Economic Research
University of Alaska Anchorage

 

Bridget Hiedemann
Associate Professor of Economics
Albers School of Business and Economics
Seattle University

 

Carlos F. Liard-Muriente
Professor and Chair, Department of Economics
Central Connecticut State University

 

Joyce Burnette
Professor of Economics
Wabash College

 

Jim Cobbe
Emeritus Professor of Economics
Florida State University

 

Edward D. Lotterman
Economist and Economic Columnist
St. Paul, MN

 

Laurence Seidman
Chaplin Tyler Professor of Economics
University of Delaware

 

Michael Sher
Professor of Finance
Metropolitan State University

 

Colin Camerer
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics
California Institute of Technology
Jeffrey B. Miller
Professor of Economics
University of Delaware

 

Elizabeth Brainerd
Susan and Barton Winokur Professor of Economics and Women’s and Gender Studies
Brandeis University

 

Irene Powell
Associate Professor of Economics
Grinnell College

 

Amalia R. Miller
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Virginia

 

Gustav Shcachter
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Northeastern  University

 

Joseph J. Minarik
Senior Vice President and Director of Research
Committee for Economic Development

 

Luca Bossi
Senior Lecturer
Department of Economics
University of Pennsylvania

 

Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
Goldyne and Irwin Hearsh Chair in Finance
The Anderson School
UCLA
Thomas Michael Power
Research Professor and Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
University of Montana
Michael A. Bernstein
Professor of History and Economics
Tulane University
Jack Reardon
School of Business
Hamline University

 

Patrick G. Welle
Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies
Bemidji State University

 

Jonathan M. Harris
Senior Research Associate
Director, Theory and Education Program
Tufts University Global Development And Environment Institute

 

Ivan S Steinberg
Associate Professor of Economics
New Jersey City University

 

Margaret Kyle (U.S. Citizen)
Professor
Toulouse School of Economics

 

Christopher A. Erickson
Professor of Economics
College of Business
New Mexico State University
Douglas J. Besharov
Norman and Florence Brody Professor
School of Public Policy
University of Maryland
Suchit Arora
Senior International Economist
State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio

 

Donald D. Hester
Emeritus Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin – Madison

 

Edward Foster
Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

 

Jerry Hembd
Professor of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Superior

 

Valerie K. Kepner
Associate Professor of Economics
King’s College

Professor Mordecai Kurz
Joan Kenney Professor of Economics – Emeritus
Department of Economics
Stanford University
 

Josefina Li
Lecturer of Economics
Bemidji State University

 

Michael J. Murray
Assistant Professor of Economics
Bemidji State University

 

Frank Ackerman
Senior Economist
Synapse Energy Economics

 

Robert H. Frank
H. J. Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University

 

Neha M. Dave
Adjunct professor of Economics & Business Administration
Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business
Mills College

 

Richard Lovett
Professor of Economics and Business Ethics
School of Management
Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

 

Henry M. Levin
William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education,
Columbia University

 

Eshragh Motahar
Professor of Economics
Union College

 

Martin Carnoy
Vida Jacks Professor of Education
Stanford University

 

J. K. Kapler
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston

 

Seamus O’Cleireacain
Economics Professor Emeritus
Purchase College SUNY

 

Jason Shogren
Stroock Professor of Natural Resource Conservation & Management
University of Wyoming

 

Robert Tokle
Professor of Economics
Idaho State University

 

Carolyn J. Heinrich
Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs and affiliated Professor of Economics
Director, Center for Health and Social Policy
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin

 

Carol O’Cleireacain
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
New York City

 

Dorothea K. Herreiner
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Loyola Marymount University

 

Klaas van ‘t Veld
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Wyoming

 

Jessica Holmes
Associate Professor of Economics
Middlebury College

 

Mark Greer
Professor of Economics
Dowling College

 

Janina Matuszeski
Lecturer in Public Policy
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

 

Linda E. Lucas
Professor of Economics Emeritus
Eckerd College

 

Carol E. Heim
Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gail Garfield Schwartz, Ph.D.
Economic Development Consultant
New York, NY

 

Christopher F Baum
Professor of Economics
Boston College

 

Catherine J. Weinberger
Economist
Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research
University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Eron Lloyd
Special Assistant for Policy and Sustainability
Mayor’s Office of Sustainability
Reading, PA

 

Roman Cech
Professor of Economics
Florida State College at Jacksonville

 

Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Associate Professor of Economics
Amherst College

 

Tsvetanka Karagyozova
Assistant Professor of Economics
Lawrence University

 

Leanne Tobias
Managing Principal
Malachite LLC

 

Andrew Winnick
Professor of Economics and Statistics
California State University, Los Angeles

 

Lynda Rush
Professor Emeritus
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

 

Richard Lyons
Professor of Finance and Economics
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

 

Francine D. Blau
Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics
Cornell University

 

Kanda Naknoi
Department of Economics
University of Connecticut

 

Margarita M. Rose
Professor of Economic
King’s College

 

Charles M. Becker
Associate Chair and Research Professor
Department of Economics
Duke University
Sarah J. Lane, Ph.D.
Educational Analyst
IXL Learning

 

Thomas Ferguson
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Senior Fellow, Roosevelt Institute

 

Professor Richard Gilbert
Department of Economics
University of California, Berkeley

 

Michael Buckley
Economics Department
Fordham University

 

Devashish Mitra
Professor of Economics &
Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University
Peter Berg
Professor of Employment Relations
School of Human Resources and Labor Relations
Michigan State University

 

Tom S. Witt
Professor of Economics Emeritus
West Virginia University

 

Jane Horvath
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Hartford

 

Arthur A. Small, III, Ph.D.
Co-founder and CEO
Venti Risk Management

 

Gail Mitchell Hoyt
Professor of Economics
University of Kentucky
Till Schreiber, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics
College of William & Mary
(Total number of signatures as of 9/18/2013 at 3:51 pm: 505, from 210 colleges and universities, and 48 states plus DC.)