# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-sumner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:36:43.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-sumner"
name: "Scott Sumner"
slug: "scott-sumner"
description: "Scott B. Sumner is an American economist. He was previously the Director of the Program on Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and a professor at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. His economics blog, The Money Illusion, popularized the idea of nominal GDP targeting, which says that the Federal Reserve and other central banks should target nominal GDP, real GDP growth plus the rate of inflation, to better \"induce the correct level of business investment\"."
tagline: "American economist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump