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CHARLES L. SCHULTZE
Biography
Charles L. Schultze, Senior Fellow Emeritus in the Economic Studies Program, has been involved with the Brookings Institution since 1968. He has served in key positions in and out of the U.S. Government for the past 36 years.
Schultze was Director of the Brookings Economic Studies program from 1987-90. He was a senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program from 1968-77, 1981-87, and 1990-96. During the Carter Administration, from 1977-80, he served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In the 1960s, Schultze was Assistant Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget from 1962-64, and Director there from 1965-67.
Schultze has authored or co-authored dozens of books and articles on economics. Most recently, he co-edited a book with Henry J. Aaron titled Setting Domestic Priorities: What Can Government Do? He also completed a study entitled Memos to the President: A Guide through Macroeconomics for the Busy Policymaker (Brookings, 1992). Among his better-known works, several of which has been written in cooperation with other Brookings scholars, are: An American Trade Strategy: Options for the 1990s, co-edited with Brookings Senior Fellow Robert Z. Lawrence (Brookings, 1990); American Living Standards: Threats and Challenges, co-edited with Robert Z. Lawrence and Robert E. Litan (Brookings, 1988); Barriers to European Growth: A Transatlantic View, with Robert Z. Lawrence (Brookings, 1987); Economic Choices 1987 (Brookings, 1986); Other Times, Other Places (Brookings, 1986) Setting National Priorities (Brookings, four volumes--1970, 1971, 1972, and 1973); Higher Oil Prices and the World Economy: The Adjustment Problem (Brookings, 1975); Pollution, Prices, and Public Policy (Brookings, 1975); The Politics and Economics of Public Spending (Brookings, 1968); and National Income Analysis (Prentice-Hall, 1964).
Schultze has been a contributor to such publications as American Economic Review, The Brookings Review, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA), and the like. He is very active on the lecture circuit, and is involved with a number of academic institutions. In 1984, he served as President of the American Economic Association.
Schultze was born in 1924 in Alexandria, Virginia. He received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Economics from Georgetown University in 1948 and 1950, respectively, and was awarded a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Maryland in 1960.
(January 1998)
