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Michael Darby

Warren C. Cordner Distinguished Professor of Money and Financial Markets; Professor of Management and Public Policy at Luskin School of Public Affairs

Warren C. Cordner Chair in Money and Financial Market at UCLA Anderson School of Management

Schools

  • UCLA Anderson School of Management
  • Luskin School of Public Affairs

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Biography

Luskin School of Public Affairs

A recognized authority in macroeconomics and international finance, Michael Darby has achieved great success in both the academic and public sectors. From 1986 to 1992, Darby served in a number of senior positions in the Reagan and Bush administrations including Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, Member of the National Commission on Superconductivity, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, and Administrator of the Economics and Statistics Administration. During his appointment, he received the Treasury’s highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award.

Dr. Darby is the widely-cited author of eleven books and monographs and numerous other professional publications. His most recent research has examined the growth of the biotechnology and nanotechnologies industry in the United States and in California, all science and engineering fields and high-technology industries in the world, and the role that universities and their faculties play in encouraging local economic development. Concurrently he holds appointments as chairman of The Dumbarton Group, research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, and adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute. He is also director of UCLA’s John M. Olin Center for Public Policy, a position he has held since 1993. Previous to his Anderson School appointment in 1987, Darby held faculty positions or fellowships with UCLA’s department of economics, Stanford University, and Ohio State University. From his schooling to 1982, he also was vice president and director of Paragon Industries, Inc., a Dallas manufacturer of high-temperature kilns, furnaces, and refractories.

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Biography

Cornell Hall, Room D5.10
UCLA Anderson School of Management
110 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1481

Michael Darby currently serves as the Warren C. Cordner Distinguished Professor of Money and Financial Markets at UCLA Anderson School of Management and in the Departments of Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, and as Director of the John M. Olin Center for Policy at UCLA Anderson. Concurrently he holds appointments as Chairman of The Dumbarton Group, Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Adjunct Scholar with the American Enterprise Institute.

Education

Ph.D. Economics, 1970, University of Chicago
M.A. Economics, 1968, University of Chicago
A.B. summa cum laude (senior fellow) 1967, Dartmouth College

Interests

Productivity Growth, Science of Science and Technology, Consumer Price Index, Biotechnology Industry, Corporate Earnings, Employment, Nanotechnology Industries, Semiconductor Industries, Stem-Cell Industry, Very-large-scale Databases, Computational Content Analysis, Banking, Capital Markets, Employment and Unemployment, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Interest Rates, Monetary Policy, Macroeconomics, International Finance, Industrial Organization

Recognition

  • Fellow, California Council on Science and Technology, 2000-present.
  • Hightower Distinguished Lecturer in Organization and Management, Emory University, 1993.
  • Listed among top 25 young economists (under 40 in 1985), ranked by total [14th] and
    mean [9th] citations, 1971-1985, in David Colander, "Research on the Economics Profession," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1989, 3: 143.
  • Alexander Hamilton Award (U.S. Treasury Department's highest honor), 1989.
  • Listed in:  Who's Who in Economics:  A Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists,
    1700-1981, 1983  (also 2nd edition 1985, 3rd edition 1996); Who's Who in America, etc.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation:  Graduate Fellow 1969-70; Prize for Best
      Dissertation, Fellowship Year 1969-70.
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1967-69.
  • Lilly Honor Fellow, 1967-70.
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Honorary), 1967-68.
  • Senior Fellow of Dartmouth College, 1966-67.
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1966.

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