# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-m-poterba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:40:31.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-m-poterba"
name: "James M. Poterba"
slug: "james-m-poterba"
description: "James Michael \"Jim\" Poterba, FBA is an American economist who is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and current National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) president and chief executive officer."
tagline: "American economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ASSA_2025_-_James_Poterba_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
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birthDate: "1958-07-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.485782666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James M. Poterba"
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    title: "چيمس ام. پوتيربا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Poterba"
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    title: "James Poterba"
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    title: "جیمز م. پوتربا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump