Aaron S. Edlin (born 1967) is an American economist and lawyer specializing in antitrust and competition policy.
In 1997–1998, he served in the Clinton White House as Senior Economist within the Council of Economic Advisers focusing on the areas of industrial organization, regulation and antitrust.
[1] Edlin graduated in 1988 Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School Science and Policy Program with an A.B.
Along with Joseph Stiglitz and J. Bradford DeLong, Edlin is the editor of The Economists' Voice journal; from 2006 to 2007, he was also president and CEO.
In March 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic's campaign to reduce the number of infected people and the massive stimulus package, Edlin called for a symmetrical, massive effort to increase health care capacity.