Jeff Faux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jeff Faux

economist

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1936

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: writer, economist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Jeff Faux

  • Jeff Faux (born Geoffrey Faux in New York City) is the principal founder of the Economic Policy Institute and was its first president, from 1986 to 2002.
  • He is now the Institute’s Distinguished Fellow and also serves on its board of directors. Faux was educated at Queens College, George Washington University, and Harvard University.
  • He is the author of The Servant Economy (Wiley, 2012), The Global Class War (Wiley, 2006), The Party’s Not Over (Basic Books, 1996) and co-author of Reclaiming America (M.E.
  • Sharpe, 1996), Rebuilding America (Pantheon, 1984) and The Star-Spangled Hustle (Doubleday, 1972). The Global Class War was translated into Spanish and Arabic.
  • In 2009, New York Times reporter John Harwood wrote: “’The distribution of income and opportunity is likely to dominate the next stage of American politics,’ Jeff Faux predicted in ‘The Global Class War’ in 2006.
  • …Then last fall, the financial crisis shoved other concerns aside and began to vindicate Mr.
  • Faux’s prediction.”Faux is also a contributing editor to Dissent Magazine and The American Prospect and serves on the board of directors of Campaign for America's Future.Faux has received a Carnegie Scholar Award from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Weinberg Award from Wayne State University, a fellowship at the Harvard Institute of Politics, and an honorary doctorate from the University of New England.Prior to starting the Economic Policy Institute, he was the co-director of the Center for Economic Alternatives.
  • He is a former economist for the U.S.
  • Departments of State, Commerce, and Labor, and former director of economic development for the U.S.
  • Office of Economic Opportunity.

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