About Jon Hartley

Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in international macroeconomics, finance, and labor economics and is currently an economics PhD student at Stanford University. He is also currently a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and a research associate at the Hoover Institution.

He previously graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics with Honors, from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with an M.B.A. specializing in finance and business economics and from the Harvard Kennedy School with an M.P.P. specializing in business and government policy.

Jon is also one of the co-organizers of the Regional/Urban/Spatial/Housing (RUSH) Online Graduate Student Workshop/Brownbag.

Jon has previously worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a Fixed Income Portfolio Construction and Risk Management Associate and as a Quantitative Investment Strategies Client Portfolio Management Senior Analyst, as a Dallas Cowboys Statistical Analyst and in various government/policy roles at the World Bank, the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Bank of Canada.

Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in international macroeconomics, finance, and labor economics and is currently an economics PhD student at Stanford University. He is also currently a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and a research associate at the Hoover Institution.

NBN Episodes hosted by Jon:

Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career

April 11, 2024

Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career

Dani Rodrik
Hosted by Jon Hartley

Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the best case for industrial policy, the labor marke…

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics

March 13, 2024

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics

Steven D. Levitt
Hosted by Jon Hartley

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an ea…

Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America

February 2, 2024

Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America

Larry Summers
Hosted by Jon Hartley

Larry Summers, Harvard economics professor and 71st US Secretary of the Treasury, joins the podcast for an in-depth discussion of his career at the hi…

Doug Ducey (Former Arizona Governor) on Passing Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition

January 7, 2024

Passing Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition in Arizona

Doug Ducey
Hosted by Jon Hartley

Doug Ducey, 23rd Governor of Arizona, joins the podcast to discuss how he made Arizona the first state to pass Universal School Choice and Universal L…

Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman

November 14, 2023

Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman

Jennifer Burns
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Jennifer Burns (Hoover Research Fellow and Stanford Associate Professor of History) joins the podcast to discuss her career as well as her new biograp…

Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians

November 4, 2023

Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians

Luke Froeb
Hosted by Jon Hartley

Luke Froeb joins the podcast to talk about his career in economics, what it's like to be the chief economist at the FTC and DOJ antitrust division, ho…

Tax Policy, Government Spending, and Public Debt

October 30, 2023

Tax Policy, Government Spending, and Public Debt

Glenn Hubbard
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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Glenn Hubbard (Former White House CEA Chair and Columbia Business School Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career in academia and government…

The CARES Act, Inflation and Financial Regulation

October 27, 2023

The CARES Act, Inflation and Financial Regulation

Andrew Olmem
Hosted by Jon Hartley

Andrew Olmem (Former White House National Economic Council Deputy Director) joins the podcast to discuss his views on the CARES Act and inflation as w…

The World Bank, China, Corporate Taxes, and Opportunity Zones

October 26, 2023

The World Bank, China, Corporate Taxes, and Opportunity Zones

DJ Nordquist
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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DJ Nordquist (Former World Bank US Executive Director and Economic Innovation Group SVP) joins the podcast to discuss her experience serving as World …

Long-run Economic and Political Trends, Schools of Economic Thought, and Economics Education

October 25, 2023

Long-run Economic and Political Trends, Schools of Economic Thought, and Economics Education

Tyler Cowen
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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Tyler Cowen (George Mason University Economics Professor and Mercatus Center Director) joins the podcast to discuss his career, various long-run econo…

Fiscal Policy, The CARES Act, and U.S. Public Debt

October 24, 2023

Fiscal Policy, The CARES Act, and U.S. Public Debt

Josh Rauh
Hosted by Jon Hartley

Josh Rauh (Stanford GSB Finance Professor and Hoover Senior Fellow) joins the podcast to discuss his distinguished academic career, his research in pu…

Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development

October 23, 2023

Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development

Simon Johnson
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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Simon Johnson (MIT Sloan Economics Professor and Former IMF Chief Economist) joins the podcast to discuss his new book "Power and Progress", co-author…

Monetary History, Bretton Woods, and Banking Crises

October 20, 2023

Monetary History, Bretton Woods, and Banking Crises

Michael Bordo
Hosted by Jon Hartley

Michael Bordo (Rutgers Economics Professor and Hoover Distinguished Visiting Fellow) joins the podcast to discuss his career, monetary history, the le…

Serving In Four U.S. Presidential Administrations, Environmental Regulation, and Infrastructure

October 19, 2023

Serving In Four U.S. Presidential Admins, Environmental Regs, and Infrastructure

Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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Diana Furchtgott-Roth (Heritage Fellow and GWU Adjunct Professor) joins the podcast to discuss her career including her government service in the Reag…

TCJA, the CARES Act, inflation, and the debt limit

October 18, 2023

TCJA, the CARES Act, inflation, and the debt limit

Kevin Hassett
Hosted by Jon Hartley

Kevin Hassett (Former CEA Chairman and Hoover Institution Distinguished Fellow) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the legacy of the Tax Cuts an…

Monetary economics, the Taylor Rule, fiscal policy, and economic growth

October 17, 2023

Monetary Economics, the Taylor Rule, Fiscal Policy, and Economic Growth

John Taylor
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins the podcast …

Jay Bhattacharya on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Public Health Response

October 16, 2023

Jay Bhattacharya on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Public Health Response

Jay Bhattacharya
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Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University Professor of Medicine) joins to the podcast to discuss his beginnings being born in Calcutta, India, his journey…

Milton Friedman, The Chicago School, and The Government’s Incentive To Promote Economic Growth

October 13, 2023

Milton Friedman, The Chicago School, and The Government’s Incentive To Promote Economic Growth

David Mitch
Hosted by Jon Hartley

David Mitch, an economic historian and professor of economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, joins the podcast to discuss the The Chi…

On The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Economic Growth

October 12, 2023

On The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Economic Growth

John Cochrane
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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John Cochrane, economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins the podcast to discuss his career, his new book, Th…

On The History of Occupational Licensing in the U.S.

October 11, 2023

On The History of Occupational Licensing in the U.S.

Morris Kleiner
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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Morris Kleiner, the AFL-CIO Chair in Labor Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and arguably the world's lea…

Quantitative Investing, Inflation and the Macroeconomy

October 10, 2023

Quantitative Investing, Inflation and the Macroeconomy

Rob Arnott
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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Jon Hartley interviewed Rob Arnott, founder and chairman of Research Affiliates, at the Economic Club of Miami on December 3, 2022. Topics discussed i…

Applying Chicago Price Theory in Academia and Government

October 9, 2023

Applying Chicago Price Theory In Academia and Government

Casey Mulligan
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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Casey Mulligan, Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, joins the podcast to discuss how he got interested in becoming an…

GSEs, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy

October 6, 2023

GSEs, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy

Mark Calabria
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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Mark Calabria (Former FHFA Director and Cato Senior Advisor) joins the podcast to discuss his tenure as director of the FHFA (Federal Housing Finance …

Long-term Housing Market Trends and Urban Policy

October 5, 2023

Long-term Housing Market Trends and Urban Policy

Salim Furth
Hosted by Jon Hartley
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Salim Furth (Senior Research Fellow and and Director of the Urbanity project, Mercatus Center) joins the podcast to discuss his background as a macroe…