is a member of a family of economists. Both his parents Robert Aaron and Margaret earned distinction independently, each contributing to economic knowledge with a view to real practical benefit for society, as did his brother David, himself more of a radical. For example, his father is the namesake of the "Gordon Report" which proposed reforms for the computation of the unemployment rate by the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. He currently resides in Evanston, Illinois with his wife Julie. Selected works The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War. Princeton University Press. 2016. . References External links Northwestern University: Robert J. Gordon Robert J. Gordon's economics papers at RePEc 1940 births Living people 21st-century American economists 20th-century American economists Fellows of the Econometric Society Harvard University alumni MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni New Keynesian economists Northwestern University faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association Journal of Political Economy editors Fellows of the American Physical Society