J. Bradford DeLong

J. Bradford DeLong (b. Boston, June 24, 1960) is an economist and weblogger. A member of the Clinton Administration economic team, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Alicia Munnell from 1993 to 1995. He currently teaches at the University of California at Berkeley and has written a macroeconomics textbook, Macroeconomics.

DeLong is also known for his Koufax Award-nominated weblog, Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal, which covers political, technical, and economic issues as well as criticism of their coverage in the media. It is widely appreciated for its wit and incisive commentary.

DeLong is also co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He was previously the Danziger associate professor at Harvard University, a John M. Olin Fellow, an assistant professor at Boston University, and a lecturer at MIT. He received his Ph. D. at Harvard University in 1987.

Professor DeLong is both a liberal, in the modern political sense, and a free trade neo-liberal, and part of an increasingly influential group of center/center-left bloggers which includes Kevin Drum, formerly "CalPundit", and Matt Yglesias of The American Prospect.