奥巴马最新任命Christina Romer为其新政府的经济顾问委员会（CEA）主席。此前读文献时，就偶尔见到Christina Romer的名字，但与David Romer相比，显得更为陌生，因为后者是广为流行的《高级宏观经济学》一书的作者。今天禁不住好奇：他们是不是夫妻俩？毕竟叫Romer的人不多。上网一搜索，还果真是夫妻俩！两人同在一所学校教书，并且在一些领域共同研究，联名发表论文。2008年哈佛大学讨论是否聘用罗默夫妇，结果哈大校长否决了对Christina的聘用，而只同意聘用David一个人，结果遭到David的愤然拒绝，这种共进共退之举，一时被传为佳话。

另一对在美国非常有名的夫妻档经济学家，是Janet Yellen和George Akerlof ，前者是美联储理事，货币经济学方面的顶尖专家，后者是信息不对称理论的创始人，曾发表影响深远的《柠檬市场》一文。George Akerlof 2001年诺贝尔经济学奖，两人在经济学研究领域亲密合作，优势互补，堪称神仙眷属。

附1：Janet Yellen和George Akerlof

In academic circles, Yellen and Akerlof -- who met in 1977 as young Fed economists and were married the next year--have won acclaim for the originality of their research, to say nothing of their clout. ...colleagues say Akerlof often comes up with breakthrough ideas, but it is Yellen who supplies the academic rigor. Akerlof ''is more interested in the inspiration than the hard work of putting it together in a professionally plausible form--he's off to the next idea,'' says Tobin. ''She provides the discipline that makes them go.''

Akerlof经常能够提出一些创见性的思想，而Yellen则为这些创意从学术精确性方面进行补充。Akerlof对灵感和创新更具兴趣，而不愿辛苦地将这些创新思想组织成专业经济学家所普遍接受的格式，他总是在提出一个创新后又跳到另一个新念头上去，而Yellen则为Akerlof提供补充，使这些思想变成人们易于理解的文章。

附2：Christina Romer与David Romer

She is married to David Romer, who was her classmate at MIT and is her colleague in the Economics Department at University of California, Berkeley. They have adjoining offices in the department, and collaborate on much of their research.

In 2008, the economics department of Harvard University voted to offer her a tenure-track position, along with her husband David Romer, but Harvard President Drew Faust vetoed Christina's appointment (but not David's). David refused to accept the solo offer.[4] Faust's decision to veto Romer's appointment was widely criticized. David Warsh, an economics journalist wrote, "By any measure, Mrs. Romer is one of the most distinguished women in economics."[5] '"Early onset Alzheimer's" is the kindest explanation I have heard from anyone currently in Cambridge,' wrote Romer colleague Brad DeLong.[6] "Harvard would seem to have a great deal of egg on its face right now".