Blinder to Be Clinton Economic Adviser
Alan Blinder, a 47-year-old economics professor at Princeton University, will be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, a published report says.
President-elect Bill Clinton offered the seat and Blinder accepted, the New York Times reported in today’s editions.
Blinder’s appointment is likely to be announced this week. He will serve under Laura D’Andrea Tyson, a Stanford University economist appointed earlier as head of the council.
The paper said Tyson’s appointment has come under criticism because her specialty, industrial and trade issues, does not give her the broad skills needed by a chairwoman of the council.
Blinder’s appointment would help counter this criticism because he is highly regarded as a specialist in broad influences on the economy, the newspaper said.
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