Robert James GORDON

Background

Gordon, Robert James was born on September 3, 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert Aaron and Margaret (Shaughnessy) Gordon.

Education

Bachelor of Arts Harvard University, 1962. Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts University Oxford, 1964, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 1967.

Career

Assistant professor economics Harvard University, 1967-1968. Assistant professor University Chicago, 1968-1973. Professor economics Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1973, Stanley G. Harris professor social science, since 1987, chair economics department, 1992-1996.

Research associate National Bureau Econ Research, since 1968. Member Brookings Panel Economic Activity, 1970-2007. Co-chairman International Seminar Macroecons., 1978-1994.

Member executive committee Conference Research, Income and Wealth, 1978-1983. Member panel review productivity measures National Academy of Sciences, 1977-1979. Consultant board governors Federal Reserve Systems, 1973-1983, United States Department Treasury, 1967-1980, United States Congressional Budget Office, 1996-2010, United States Bureau Economic Analysis, since 1999.

Member National Commission on Consumer Price Index, 1995-1997. Member tech panel, Society Security Administration, 2003-2007.

Achievements

• Robert James Gordon has been listed as a noteworthy economics professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Productivity Growth, Inflation, and Unemployment: The Collected Essays of Robert J. Gordon

    (Seventeen essays include three previously unpublished wor...)

  • Macroeconomics (12th Edition) (Pearson Series in Economics)

    (Macroeconomics is widely praised for its ability to prese...)

  • The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices (National Bureau of Economic Research Monograph)

    ( American business has recently been under fire, charged...)

  • The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change. Studies in Business Cycles Volume 25.
  • Robert J. Gordon: The American Business Cycle : Continuity and Change (Paperback); 1990 Edition
  • The Measurement of Durable Goods Prices (National Bureau of Economic Research Monograph) by Robert J. Gordon (1990-04-17)

Views

Demonstrated that inflation depends both on demand pressure and supply shocks and that excess demand stems from pressures on the central bank to accommodate wage push, supply shocks and fiscal deficits. Have called attention to the greater inertia of inflation in the postwar United States than in either the prewar United States or in other postwar countries (especially United Kingdom and Japan). Have questioned conventional approaches to the econometric specification of fixed in vestment and money demand functions and suggested a new treatment of each topic.

Work on price measurement for durable goods has developed new techniques to adjust for improvements in performance and energy efficiency, as well as 20,000 new data observations that yield radically different estimates of changes in aggregate prices and productivity, and in the industry allocation of productivity gains.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Econometric Society (treasurer 1975—2005). Member American Economic Association (board editors 1975-1977, member executive committee 1981-1983), Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• 123 Com parative Economic Studies. 130 Economic Fluctuations. 226 Productivity and Growth.

Connections

Married Julie S. Peyton, June 22, 1963.

Father:

Robert Aaron Gordon

Mother:

Margaret (Shaughnessy) Gordon

Spouse:

Julie S. Peyton