Simon Johnson
Professor of Global Economics and Management at Sloan School of Management
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Sloan School of Management
SIMON JOHNSON is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is head of the Global Economics and Management group. In 2007-08 he was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and he currently co-chairs the CFA Institute® Systemic Risk Council. In February 2021, Johnson joined the board of directors of Fannie Mae.
Johnson’s most recent book, with Jon Gruber, Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream, explains how to create millions of good new jobs around the U.S., through renewed public investment in research and development. This proposal has attracted bipartisan support.
Johnson was previously a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., a cofounder of BaselineScenario.com, and a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee. From July 2014 to 2017, Johnson was a member of the Financial Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR), within which he chaired the Global Vulnerabilities Working Group.
“The Quiet Coup” received over a million views when it appeared in The Atlantic in early 2009. His book 13 Bankers: the Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (with James Kwak), was an immediate bestseller and has become one of the mostly highly regarded books on the financial crisis. Their follow-up book on U.S. fiscal policy, White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters for You, won praise across the political spectrum. Johnson’s academic research on economic development, corporate finance, political economy, and public health is widely cited.
“For his articulate and outspoken support for public policies to end too-big-to-fail”, Johnson was named a Main Street Hero by the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) in 2013.
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CBFRC Keynote Address by Simon Johnson, MIT Sloan School of Management
Prof. Simon Johnson – Goldman Sachs
Simon Johnson Takes on Banks Deemed Too Big to Fail
Simon Johnson: White House Burning
Simon Johnson The Doom Cycle
Faculty Session: Simon Johnson
The Banking Sector Interview with Simon Johnson
13 Bankers: Simon Johnson
Simon Johnson on Misleading Reform Messages
The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
Simon Johnson - on Starting a Revolution
MIT Sloan Experts Series – Simon Johnson & Jonathan Gruber: Jump-Starting America
Atlanta Fed's 2011 Financial Markets Conference: Interview with Simon Johnson
Simon Johnson - 13 Bankers And The Next Financial Meltdown
Simon Johnson, professor, MIT Sloan Management - View from IMF
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