George Perry

Background

George Perry was born in 1934 in New York, and grew up in Los Los Angeles

Career

In 1970, he and Arthur Okun founded the Brookings Panel and its journal, the (BPEA). They conceived the Panel as a way to apply rigorous economic research to current economic puzzles, problems and policy issues. After Okun"s death in 1980, William Brainard replaced him and Brainard and Perry ran the Panel and edited BPEA until 2007.

In his own research, Perry specializes in labor markets, inflation, fiscal and monetary policy, financial markets, and economic forecasting.

He enrolled at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950, and upon graduation served in the United States. Air Force (1954-1957). After this he returned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his Doctor of Philosophy in economics in 1961.

Perry served on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors under President John F. Kennedy, and subsequently was on the economics faculty at the University of Minnesota, reaching the rank of full professor In 1969 he returned to Washington to join The Brookings Institution as a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies.

In addition to his work at the Brookings Institution, he is a director emeritus of various Dreyfus mutual funds and of the State Farm Mutual Automobile Association and State Farm Life Insurance Company.

Soon after they both arrived at Brookings, George Perry and Arthur Okun founded the Brookings Panel and its Journal, the They would run the Panel meetings and edit BPEA together until Okun"s death in 1980. In the following year Perry enlisted William Brainard to replace Okun, and they ran and edited BPEA for the next 27 years. When Perry and Brainard turned the Panel over to their chosen successors, Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post commented:

"Twice a year since 1970, some of the best economists in the world gathered at the Brookings Institution to deliver and critique papers on all the hot topics in macroeconomics.

The quality was always high and the disagreements were spirited but respectful, with none of the partisan or ideological rancor that now characterizes so much of economic conversation.

But last week"s meeting of the panel was special. Nearly 100 alumni, including a certain former Federal Reserve chairman and three Nobel prize winners, gathered to pay tribute to George Perry, a Brookings fixture, and Yale professor Bill Brainard, who have been the guiding hands and spirit of the panel for the past 27 years.

lieutenant"s only a slight exaggeration to say that there are few pieces of received wisdom in macroeconomics today that don"t have Perry"s and Brainard"s fingerprints on them. And it tells you something about the institution they nourished that they will be succeeded by a trio of top-flight economists with deep Washington experience: former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

Greg Mankiw, former head of President Bush"s Council of Economic Advisers.

And Doug Elmendorf, who"s worked at the Treasury, Federation,Congress and the White House.".

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: The Neuronal Cytoskeleton, 1992. Co-author: (chapter) Muscle and Cell Motility, 1982, Membranes in Growth and Development, 1982, Electron Microscopy and Alzheimer's Disease, 1986, Banbury Report 27, Molecular Neuropathology of Aging, 1987, Advances in Behavioral Biology, 1987, Fidia Research Series, 1988, Progress in Clinical and Biological Research: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, 1989, 93, International Congress Series: Molecular Biology and Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease, 1990, Neuroscience Year, 1992, Amyloid and Amyloidosis, 1993, Dementia in Parkinson's Disease, 1994, Non-Neural Cells in Alzheimer's Disease, 1995, Alzheimer's Disease: Aetiological Mechanism and Therapeutic Possibilities, 1996. Editor-in-chief Journal Alzheimer's Disease.
    
    Guest editor Clinical Neurosci., 1993. Editor biomedical Journal, 1994-1995. Associate editor American Journal pathology, 1994-1996.
    
    Member editorial board American Journal Pathology, since 1992, African Journal Neurosci., since 1993, AlzheimerDisease and Associated Disorders, since 1994, Alzheimer's Disease Review, since 1995, Journal Alzheimer's Disease. Reviewer Acta Neuropathol., Alan Liss Publication Company, American Journal Pathol., Ann Neurol, others. Contributor articles to Experimental Cell Research, Jour Cell Biology, Journal Leukocyte Biology, Development Biology, Brain Research, American Journal Pathology, Journal Neurosci., European Journal Cell Biology, Nature, Annals Neurology, Lancet, Acta Neuropathology, Journal Neurochemistry, Neurosci.
    
    Letters, Hepatology, Journal Hirnforsch, Cancer Letters, Neuroreport, Medical Hypotheses, Nature Medicine, Neurodegeneration, Brain Research Protocols, others.

Connections

Father:

George Richard Perry

Mother:

Mary Arlene (George) Perry

Spouse:

Paloma Aguilar

child:

Anne Perry

child:

Elizabeth Perry