I am delighted to welcome Jeff Frankel and his Weblog to the KM Blogwatch. Jeff is the James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is also the Director of the Program in International Finance and Macroeconomics for the National Bureau of Economic Research. In his new blog, he writes about economic policy and other policy matters at the intersection of business, economics, and politics.
Jeff has taught at Harvard since 1999, and taught for two decades prior to that at the University of California at Berkeley. He served as a member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 1999.
I have known Jeff for 30 years, and even rented a room in his house in the Berkeley hills in the early 1980s when I was a young graduate student in political science and he was an assistant professor in the economics department. Jeff is a brilliant and prolific scholar, an engaging teacher, and a graceful and witty writer.
Oh. Since it is Academy Awards Eve, it is fitting to mention that Jeff also can recite the entire dialogue from Casablanca from memory.
