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Simon Bowmaker
Bowmaker in 2025
Born	1971 (age 54–55) Sunderland, England
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen, University of Cambridge, University of St Andrews
Occupation	Economist
Employer	New York University Stern School of Business
Known for	Research in economics and policymaking

Simon Bowmaker is a British economist and academic, known for his work on the intersection of economics and policymaking.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} He is a Distinguished Clinical Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business and the author of several books on the oral history of economists and economic policymaking in the United States, including When the President Calls (2019) and the forthcoming Fed Reckoning: Conversations on America’s Central Bank.^{[10][1][11][12]}

Bowmaker was born in 1971 in Sunderland, in northeast England.^[13][14] He earned a Master of Arts (MA) in Economics from the University of Aberdeen in 1996, followed by a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Economics from the University of Cambridge in 1998.^{[14][11][15][16]} He completed his PhD in Economics from the University of St Andrews in 2009.^[17]

Bowmaker served as a U.K. Economist at HSBC Markets in London, and held economist positions at Government Economic Service (GES) and Cambridge Econometrics, a consulting firm.^[18][19][20]

Later, he held teaching positions at universities in the United Kingdom and the United States, including the University of Edinburgh, Imperial College London, Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of Texas at Austin.^{[18][19][21][22]} He was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.^[23][24][25]

In 2007, Bowmaker joined New York University’s Stern School of Business as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics. He was appointed Clinical Associate Professor of Economics in 2009, later promoted to Clinical Professor, and currently holds the title of Distinguished Clinical Professor.^{[14][19][26][11]}

During his tenure at NYU Stern, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award for Pedagogical Innovation and was named one of Poets & Quants’ Top 40 Undergraduate Business Professors across the United States, Canada, and Europe.^[27][28][14]

Bowmaker’s research has focused on the intersection of economics and policymaking, with particular emphasis on the role of economic advisers and economists in government.^[1][4][8] His work primarily employs interview-based methodology to document how economic advisers interact with political leaders, how economists approach research, and how economics is taught at the university level.^[29][30][31]

When the President Calls: Conversations with Economic Policymakers (MIT Press, 2019) documents the role of economic advisors in U.S. presidential administrations. It contains interviews with 35 former U.S. government economic officials who served in the executive branch of administrations from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump’s first term.^[13][2] The interviewees had strong ties to higher education institutions before and/or after their government service and have worked at the Council of Economic Advisers, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of the Treasury, and the National Economic Council, having direct access to the policymaking process.^[2][13]

The book features a foreword by Minouche Shafik and is divided into nine sections for each presidential administration in chronological order, and 35 chapters for each government official.^[32][29] Bowmaker focuses on each administration’s crises, how decisions were made during uncertain times, the management styles of different presidents, and the individuals behind the economic policymakers.^{[33][34][29][35]} He interviewed former Federal Reserve chairs Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Charles Schultze, Janet Yellen, former Treasury secretaries Robert Rubin and Hank Paulson, Michael Blumenthal, and economists Martin Feldstein, Arthur Laffer, and Larry Summers.^{[36][4][33][32][1][3][10]}

The interviews cover key moments in recent economic history, including the Reagan tax cuts, the economic factors that cost George H.W. Bush the1992 reelection bid, the 2008 financial crisis, and the differences in economic policymaking styles between different administrations.^[5][33][1]

The book was reviewed in Congress & the Presidency, an interdisciplinary journal of political science and history created by the United States Capitol Historical Society. Reviewer Mark Zachary Taylor described it as a useful resource for historical researchers and complementary to earlier scholarship on presidential economic advisers.^[29] When the President Calls has since been cited in academic studies on economic policymaking and in mainstream media coverage of U.S. economic policy, including Forbes and the New York Times.^{[1][37][2][10]}

The Heart of Teaching Economics: Lessons from Leading Minds (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010) is a collection of interviews with 21 economists at U.S. universities, discussing their approaches to teaching economics and their views on the profession, with a foreword by Nobel laureate, Robert Solow.^{[38][39][40][41][31]} The book examines pedagogical methods and teaching philosophies across various subdisciplines, from traditional microeconomics and macroeconomics to behavioral economics and race and gender in economics.^[38]

The book is divided into three parts: fundamentals, tools, and applications.^[42] Each interview follows a seven-part structured format addressing interviewees’ background, teaching philosophies and techniques, course design, textbook selection, and perspectives on the future of teaching economics.^[42][31] Bowmaker’s interviewees include John B. Taylor, William Easterly, Frederic Mishkin, Barry Eichengreen, and Daniel S. Hamermesh, among others.^[43][44][45] Scholars analyzing economics pedagogy noted that most of Bowmaker’s interviewees favored a transmission model of teaching, emphasizing learning of tools and concepts, rather than critical or emancipatory thinking, and that few engaged with educational theory.^[46]

In a 2012 review of the book published at International Review of Economics Education, Sandra J. Odorzynski recommended that the book be used as a source for novice and experienced professors of economics, high school teachers, and trainers of teachers.^[31]The book has since been cited in academic scholarship on the pedagogy of economics.^[43][46][40]

The Art and Practice of Economics Research: Lessons from Leading Minds (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012) is a collection of interviews with 25 economists discussing their research methods, intellectual influences, and approaches to theory-building.^[47] The book features a foreword by Nobel laureate Roger Myerson and includes interviews with Nobel laureates David Card, Robert E. Lucas Jr., Daron Acemoglu, and Paul Milgrom, as well as Partha Dasgupta, Susan Athey, and E. Roy Weintraub.^{[48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56]}

Reviewing the book in The American Economist (2013), economist David Colander described the volume as “a composite picture of the way top modern economic researchers see themselves and the economics profession” and noted it as complementary to Bowmaker’s earlier book, The Heart of Teaching Economics.^[11]