Sequesters, Debt Ceilings, Obamacare: What Really Matters?

Posted on 01/09/14

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Edward Leamer is the Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management, Professor of Economics and Professor of Statistics at UCLA. He received a B.A. degree in mathematics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. degree in economics and an M.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan. After serving as Assistant and Associate Professor at Harvard University he joined the University of California at Los Angeles in 1975 as Professor of Economics and served as Chair from 1983 to 1987. In 1990 he moved to the Anderson Graduate School of Management and was appointed to the Chauncey J. Medberry Chair. Professor Leamer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He is currently serving as the Director of the UCLA/Anderson Business Forecast Project and Chief Economist of the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index. Dr. Leamer has published over 120 articles and 4 books, including his latest book Macroeconomic Patters and Stories. His research papers in econometrics have been collected in Sturdy Econometrics, published in the Edward Elgar Series of Economists of the 20th Century.