Martin Feldstein

Martin Feldstein
Feldstein at the White House in 1982.
13th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
In office October 14, 1982 – July 10, 1984
President	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	Murray Weidenbaum
Succeeded by	Beryl Sprinkel
Personal details
Born	Martin Stuart Feldstein (1939-11-25)November 25, 1939 New York City, U.S.
Died	June 11, 2019(2019-06-11) (aged 79) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Education	Harvard University (AB) Nuffield College, Oxford (BLitt, MA, DPhil)
Academic career
Institution	Harvard University (1967–2019) National Bureau of Economic Research (1977–1982, 1984–2019)
Field	Macroeconomics, public economics
School or tradition	Neoclassical economics
Doctoral advisor	W. M. Gorman
Doctoral students	Harvey S. Rosen Eli Noam[1] Larry Summers Jeffrey Sachs[2] Joel Slemrod Douglas Elmendorf Jeffrey Liebman Raj Chetty[3]
Contributions	Feldstein-Horioka puzzle
Awards	John Bates Clark Medal (1977)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Martin Stuart Feldstein (/ˈfɛldstaɪn/ FELD-styne;^[4] November 25, 1939 – June 11, 2019) was an American economist.^[5] He was the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He served as president and chief executive officer of the NBER from 1978 to 2008 (with the exception of 1982 to 1984).^[6] From 1982 to 1984, Feldstein served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and as chief economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan (where his deficit hawk views clashed with the Reagan administration's large military expenditure policies). Feldstein was also a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body the Group of Thirty from 2003.^[7]