Aaron S. Edlin (born 1967) is an American economist and lawyer specializing in

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and

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. In 1997–1998, he served in the Clinton

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as Senior Economist within the

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focusing on the areas of industrial organization, regulation and antitrust. In 1999, he co-founded the ''

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'', an

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company that assists with scholarly communication.

Early years

Edlin graduated in 1988 ''Summa Cum Laude'' from

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, Woodrow Wilson School Science and Policy Program with an A.B. degree in physics and economics. In 1993, he received a Ph.D. in economics, and a J.D. from

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Career

Edlin became a

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d professor of economics at

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in 1997 and the following year, he became tenured in the School of Law as well. Since 2005, he has held the Richard W. Jennings '39 Endowed Chair. He has also taught at

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, and

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. He is a research associate at the

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. From 2000 through 2003, he served on the

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's board of directors, and again beginning in 2013. Other active professional affiliations include

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, and American Association of Law Teachers. Along with

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and

J. Bradford DeLong James Bradford "Brad" DeLong (born June 24, 1960) is an economic historian who is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. DeLong served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Clinto ...

, Edlin is the editor of ''The Economists' Voice'' journal; from 2006 to 2007, he was also president and CEO. He is a member of the editorial boards of ''Journal of Law, Economic, and Organization'' and ''International Review of Law and Economics''; he is a retired associate editor of ''Journal of Industrial Economics''. With Phillip Areeda and Louis Kaplow, Edlin co-authored ''Antitrust analysis: Problems, text, cases'', one of the leading American

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s on antitrust. His most recent book, ''The economists' voice: Top economists take on today's problems'' (2008), is a series of essays on the application of economics to public policy issues. Edlin has written numerous articles and contributed to several books. In March 2020, in the context of the

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's campaign to reduce the number of infected people and the massive stimulus package, Edlin called for a symmetrical, massive effort to increase health care capacity.

Personal life

Edlin lives in the

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Partial bibliography

* Edlin, A. S., Stiglitz, J. E., & De Long, J. B. (2008). ''The economists' voice: Top economists take on today's problems''. New York: Columbia University Press. * Areeda, Phillip; Kaplow, Louis; Edlin, Aaron S. (2004). ''Antitrust analysis: Problems, text, cases''. New York: Aspen.

References

External links

Official website at UC Berkeley

Curriculum Vitae

Partial list of works
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