WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden is introducing his economic-policy team this week, drawing on veterans of the Obama administration and progressive think tanks. Their past views on inequality, labor economics, education and budget deficits offer a guide to how they could shape the administration’s policies.

Cecilia Rouse

Cecilia Rouse, Mr. Biden’s nominee for chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is a Princeton University economist who leads the university’s public-policy school. She has focused her career on…

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