Barry Alan Bluestone (born December 27, 1944) is an American academic who is the Stearns Trustee Professor of
Political Economy
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, founding director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, and the founding dean of the School of
Public Policy
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& Urban Affairs at
Northeastern University in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Previously he was Professor of Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He also taught economics at
Boston College where he served as director of the university's Social Welfare Research Institute. He is also one of five co-founders of the Economic Policy Institute. In the 1980s and the 1990s he collaborated with the late economist
Bennett Harrison on several publications.
Education
Bluestone attended
University of Michigan
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where he received his Ph.D. (1974).
Writings
Bluestone has written extensively and has authored or co-authored a number of books focused on political economy and society including: ''The Deindustrialization of America (1982)'', ''The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America (1988)'', ''Negotiating the Future: A Labor Perspective on American Business (1992)'', ''Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the 21st Century (2000)'',''The Prosperity Gap: A Chartbook of American Living Standards (2000)'', ''The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis (2001)'', ''Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization (2003)'',
''The Urban Experience: Economics, Society, and Public Policy (2008)''.
Government service
In 1995, Bluestone served as policy staff member for Congressman
Richard Gephardt
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Democratic Leader of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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.
Trump statement controversy
On February 5, 2018, a clip of a January 2018 lecture given by Bluestone was posted online in which he criticized President
Donald Trump
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Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...
. In the clip, Bluestone said that "Sometimes I want to just see
rump
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impeached other times, quite honestly -- I hope there are no FBI agents here -- I wouldn’t mind seeing him dead." In a subsequent interview with ''
the Boston Globe
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'', Bluestone explained that his remark was "offhand" and that he does not condone violence or want President Trump assassinated. He later apologized for his remarks, saying that he meant that he would have liked to see Trump "disappear from the White House."
Sources
External links
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Library of Congress
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Authorities — with 15 catalog records
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21st-century American economists
University of Michigan alumni
Boston College faculty
Northeastern University faculty
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
1944 births
Political economists
Economic Policy Institute