Justin is the rarest of economist -- he has something to say and knows how to say it. Economists, as everyone knows, are people who are good with numbers, but don’t have the personality to be accountants. Justin is full of fun, but non-stop insight, facts, and opinion about our economy, the world economy, and US policy, domestic and foreign. Justin is also as close as it gets to an economics celebrity. He writes for and appears on a wide range of top media outlets. But he’s also a very serious academic. Together with his Partner, Betsy Stevenson, Justin has co-authored a range of fascinating top research studies, including on something in which, as you’ll see/hear, he personally specializes -- happiness!
Justin’s Bio
Justin Wolfers is a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan and a visiting professor of economics at the University of Sydney. He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research; a non-resident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a research fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn; a research affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London; an international research fellow with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and a fellow of the CESifo, in Munich. He was previously a visiting professor at Princeton, an associate professor at Wharton, an assistant professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia. He is also a past editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and was a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers. Dr. Wolfers earned his PhD in economics in 2001 from Harvard University, and was a Fulbright, Knox and Menzies Scholar. He earned his undergraduate degree in economics in his native Australia at the University of Sydney in 1994, winning the University Medal. He was recently named by the IMF as one of the “25 economists under 45 shaping the way we think about the global economy.” Wolfers’ research focuses on labor economics, macroeconomics, political economy, law and economics, social policy and behavioral economics. Beyond research, he is a contributing columnist for the New York Times, appears frequently on TV, radio and in print. He is also a popular teacher, with many teaching awards to his name, and an author of a leading introductory economics textbook.
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