William A Barnett

Dr. Barnett is the Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas and Director of the Center for Financial Stability, in New York City. He also is Senior Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and a Fellow of the Institute for Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University. 

He previously was Research Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C., Stuart Centennial Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to becoming an economist, Dr. Barnett worked as an engineer at Rocketdyne on development of the Rocketdyne F-1 rocket engine.

Learn more about William Barnett on the Department of Economics website.