Nouriel Roubini born on March 29, 1958 in Istanbul, Turkey, is a professor of economics at New York University. He is also the chairman of Roubini Global Economics. He served in various roles at the Treasury Department, including Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Director of the Office of Policy Development and Review (July 1999 - June 2000).

Before joining the Brookings Instituion in August 2007, Martin worked at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Previously, Martin completed a successful term as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under U.S. President Bill Clinton . At the same time, he also served as president of the Economic Policy Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development in Paris.

Ben Bernanke , the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has studied both the '30's and the Japanese deflationary periods in depth. Fortunately he published papers and books on the subject along with other like minded economists, including GB Eggertsson.

Arthur Frank Burns (born April 27, 1904 in Stanyslaviv, Galicia (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine); died June 6, 1987 in Baltimore) was an American economist. He served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978.

Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. Following his retirement as Fed chairman, he accepted an honorary (unpaid) position at HM Treasury in the United Kingdom. First appointed Fed chairman by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, …

R. Glenn Hubbard is an American economist. He is Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he is also Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics. He is also a professor of economics in Columbia's Faculty of Arts and Sciences Hubbard is a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies tax policy and health care.

Nicholas Gregory Mankiw (born February 3, 1958) is a macroeconomist. From 2003 to 2005, Mankiw was the chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisors. Mankiw was born in Trenton, New Jersey. In his youth, he attended the prestigious Pingry School. Later graduating from Princeton University "summa cum laude" in 1980 with an AB in Economics, …

Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28 , 1953 ) is an American economist . Krugman is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University . He is also an author and a columnist for The New York Times , writing a twice-weekly op-ed for the newspaper since 2000.

Otto Eckstein was a German-born economist at Harvard university, member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and co-founder of Data Resources Inc.

Murray Weidenbaum , PhD , Missouri USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k An active participant in economic, tax and regulatory policy-making in Washington, DC, Dr. Weidenbaum presents his informed an often humorous analysis of the latest developments around the world. He is an advisor to top management in both business and government and a member of numerous corporate and non-profit boards.

Janet L. Yellen took office on June 14, 2004, as president and chief executive officer of the Twelfth District Federal Reserve Bank, at San Francisco. In 2008, she serves as an alternate voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. ...

Laura D'Andrea Tyson (b. June 28, 1947, New Jersey) is an American economist and former Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. She also served as Director of the National Economic Council. She is currently a professor at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley. From 2002 to 2006, Tyson was the first female Dean of the London Business School. From 1998 to 2001, she was Dean of the Haas School of Business.

Robert Z. Lawrence, a former South African national, is the current Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

William D. Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. Nordhaus received his B.A. from Yale in 1963, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967. He has been a member of the faculty at Yale since 1967, and has also served as its Provost from 1986-88 and its Vice President for Finance and Administration from 1992-93. Among myriad honors, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, …

Economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that the U.S. government should address the mortgage crisis by providing aid directly to homeowners, rather than to the financial institutions holding their mortgages.