Jeffrey G. Madrick is an American journalist and author specializing in economic policy matters. He is editor of Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, a visiting professor at The Cooper Union, and Director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative at the Century Foundation. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and a former economics columnist for The New York Times and Harper's Magazine. He has also contributed to online publications such as The Daily Beast and Huffington Post.