Alan Stuart Blinder (October 14, 1945 - ) is an American economist, on the faculty of Princeton University, who advised John Kerry during the latter's 2004 presidential campaign. He graduated from Syosset High School.

Blinder received his undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in 1967. He subsequently attended the London School of Economics and then received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971.

He has served as the Deputy Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office, on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, and as the Vice Chairman on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

He is married and has two sons.

Works by Alan Blinder

• Asking About Prices: A New Approach to Understanding Price Stickiness
• Central Banking in Theory and Practice
• Growing Together: An Alternative Economic Strategy for the 1990s
• Paying for Productivity
• Macroeconomics Under Debate
• Inventory Theory and Consumer Behavior
• Hard Heads, Soft Hearts: Tough‑Minded Economics for a Just Society
• Economics: Principles and Policy
• Economic Opinion, Private Pensions and Public Pensions: Theory and Fact
• Economic Policy and the Great Stagflation
• Natural Resources, Uncertainty and General Equilibrium Systems: Essays in Memory of Rafael Lusky
• Toward an Economic Theory of Income Distribution