Covering the Economy: A List of Some Smart, Talkative, and Thoughtful Macroeconomists

I promised the journalism students that I would come up with a list of smart, talkative, and thoughtful macroeconomists that they could refer to. My first thought was to send out the list of people who have signed up for Martin Wolf's economists' forum . But I can't: the list is ovary-free.

So let me add a random free-associated twenty who ought to be on the list: Anne Krueger, Valerie Ramey, Laura Tyson, Catherine Mann, Carmen Reinhart, Susan Collins, Christie Romer, Kristen Forbes, Karen Lewis, and Helene Ray.

Here's Martin Wolf's list:

Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
Olivier Blanchard, MIT
Willem Buiter, London School of Economics, Goldman Sachs
Ricardo Caballero, MIT
Stephen Cecchetti, Brandeis
Paul Collier, Oxford University
Richard Cooper, Harvard University
Guillermo de la Dehesa, Goldman Sachs
Brad De Long, Berkeley
Peter Diamond, MIT
Michael Dooley, University of California - Santa Cruz
Sebastian Edwards, UCLA
Barry Eichengreen, Berkeley
Martin Feldstein, NBER
Jeffrey Frankel, Kennedy School
Richard Freeman, Harvard University
Fan Gang, China Academy of Social Sciences
Wynne Godley, Cambridge University
Robert Gordon, Northwestern University
Ricardo Hausmann, Kennedy School
Glenn Hubbard, Columbia University
Taketoshi Ito, Tokyo Univeristy
Robert Laurence, Kennedy School
Richard Layard, London School of Economics
Robert Lucas, Chicago University
Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University
Alan Meltzer, Carnegie-Mellon
Ronald McKinnon, Stanford University
Edmund (Ned) Phelps, Columbia University
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Bruegel
Richard Portes, London Business School
Adam Posen , Institute for International Economics
Helmut Reisen, OECD
Danny Rodrik, Kennedy School
Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University
Andrew Rose, University of California - Berkeley
Nouriel Roubini, New York University
Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University
Andrei Sapir, European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics
Paul Seabright, Toulouse
Hans-Werner Sinn, University of Munich
Lawrence Summers
Tony Venables, London School of Economics
Juergen von Hagen, University of Bonn
Robert Wade, London School of Economics
Adrian Wood, Oxford University
Charles Wyplosz, Graduate Institute of International Studies
Luigi Zingales, Chicago University