Robert J. Gordon

Robert J. Gordon
Born (1940-09-03) September 3, 1940 (age 84)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldMacroeconomics
Social economics
InstitutionNorthwestern University
School or
tradition
New Keynesian economics
Alma materHarvard University (1962)
Oxford University (1964)
MIT (1967)
Doctoral
advisor
Robert Solow[1]
ContributionsCore inflation
Productivity
Growth theory
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Robert James Gordon is an American economist. He is the Stanley G. Harris Professor of the Social Sciences at Northwestern University and one of the world’s leading experts on inflation, unemployment, and long-term economic growth.

His recent work asking whether economic growth in the US is “almost over” has been widely cited,[2] and in 2016 he was named by Bloomberg as one of the 50 most influential people in the world.[3]

  1. ^ Gordon, Robert J. (1967). Problems in the measurement of real investment in the U.S. private economy (Ph.D.). MIT. hdl:1721.1/105586.
  2. ^ "Robert J. Gordon". live.worldbank.org. 2020-09-02. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  3. ^ "These Are the 50 Most Influential People in the World of Finance". Bloomberg.com.