Kevin Hassett

Kevin Allen Hassett is an American economist. He is best known for his work on tax policy and for coauthoring Dow 36,000, published in 1999. Hassett is currently a senior fellow and director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservativethink tank. He was John McCain's chief economic adviser in the 2000 presidential primaries and an economic adviser to the campaigns of George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election and McCain in the presidential election of 2008. He was Mitt Romney's economic adviser for the 2012 presidential campaign.

Education and early career

Hassett is a native of Greenfield, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Greenfield High School and played for Turnbull's in the Greenfield Minor League. He received a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He was an assistant professor of economics at Columbia Business School from 1989 to 1993 and an associate professor there from 1993 to 1994. From 1992 to 1997, Hassett was an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He served as a policy consultant to the United States Treasury Department during the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.