Economic Policy Making in the Obama Administration

Jason Furman, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council

Jason Furman is a former senior fellow in economic studies and director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. He has served as a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, a special assistant to the president at the National Economic Council, and a senior adviser at the World Bank. Furman has conducted research in a wide range of areas, including fiscal policy, tax policy, health economics, Social Security, and monetary policy. He is the editor of several books on economic policy, including Path to Prosperity and Who Has the Cure.