The Economics Review

Siddharth Kara is a British Academy Global Professor and an Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. As an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery, he has authored three books and won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. His first book was adapted into a Hollywood film called Trafficked, and a feature film inspired by his latest book, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, is currently in preproduction.

Philip Howard is the Founder of Common Good, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates simplifying government, as well as a lawyer, renowned columnist, and author. In 2017, he was a member of President Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum, where his reports played a key role in influencing the Trump Administration's infrastructure proposals, including speeding up approval times. His latest book is titled Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions.

Dakin Campbell is the Chief Finance Correspondent at Business Insider. He is the publication's senior reporter covering Wall Street, after a decade at Bloomberg writing for its wire service, Businessweek, and Markets magazine. At Insider he writes and reports about Wall Street and the broader finance industry, often working with confidential sources to uncover issues that management teams and other subjects would rather keep quiet. His latest book is titled Going Public: How Silicon Valley Rebels Loosened Wall Street's Grip on the IPO and Sparked a Revolution.

Dr. Mordecai Kurz is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics-Emeritus at Stanford University, whose research work has covered a variety of problems in economic theory and policy. He has written extensively on growth theory, game theory, and the effect of market power on inequality and growth, and he has worked on many policy projects. He also served as a special economic advisor to President Carter's Commission on Pension Policy in 1979. His latest book is titled  The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age.

Connor Boyack is the founder and president of Libertas Institute, an award-winning free market libertarian think tank located in Utah with a mission to advance the cause of liberty. He is the author of 37 books, including the popular Tuttle Twins children's series, which have sold over 5 million copies. Named one of Utah's most politically influential people by The Salt Lake Tribune, Connor's leadership has changed over 100 laws covering a wide range of areas such as privacy, government transparency, property rights, drug policy, education, personal freedom, and more.

Senator Phil Gramm is a former U.S. Congressman and Senator from Texas, as well as the former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee between 1991 and 2001. Prior to this, he was a Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. He is now a Senior Partner at US Policy Metrics and a nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, he is an economist by training, and his latest book is titled The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases the Policy Debate.

Dr. Frank Dikötter is the Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Dutch historian specializing in modern China. Prior to this, he was a Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is the author of a dozen books that have changed the way we look at the history of modern China and the winner of the prestigious BBC Samuel Johnson prize. His latest book is titled China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower.

Dr. Allen Morrison is a Professor of Global Management and the former CEO and Director General of the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University (ASU). Before joining ASU, he was the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair for Responsible Leadership and director of the Global CEO Center at IMD in Switzerland. His latest book is titled Enterprise China: Adopting a Competitive Strategy for Business Success.

Ethan Chorin is a former diplomat, senior political analyst, author, and environmental entrepreneur. From 2004 to 2006, he was one of a handful of US diplomats posted to Libya to help set up a US mission in the wake of the rapprochement with Colonel Gaddafi. Six years later, as co-director of an NGO working to help build medical infrastructure in Eastern Libya, he became a witness to the Benghazi attack and its aftermath. A year later, he was nominated by both Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. John McCain to succeed Chris Stevens as ambassador. From 2020-2021, he was Sr. Advisor to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the UAE. Holding a Ph.D. in Resource Economics from UC Berkeley, his latest book is titled Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink.

Dr. Marion Laboure is a senior economist and market strategist at Deutsche Bank, a lecturer at Harvard University, and a recognized expert in financial technology. In addition to designing her own financial technologies course at Harvard University, she speaks extensively about payment systems, blockchain, and digital currencies at conferences and seminars. Holding a Ph.D. from ENS, her latest book is titled Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech. 

Lynn Greenky is Associate Teaching Professor at Syracuse University, and an attorney admitted to the New York State Bar, using her legal training and expertise to teach presentation, advocacy, and argumentation. She is interested in political and legal discourse and created courses that reflect those concerns. Her latest book is titled When Freedom Speaks: The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of Our First Amendment Right.

Rafael Mangual is a fellow and deputy director of legal policy at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He has authored and co-authored a number of MI reports and op-eds on issues ranging from urban crime and jail violence to broader matters of criminal and civil justice reform. Holding a J.D. from DePaul University, his latest book is titled Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most.

Katherine Blunt covers renewable energy and utilities for The Wall Street Journal. Her team's reporting on PG&E has been honored with a Barlett & Steele award for business investigative journalism, the Thomas L. Stokes award for energy and environmental reporting, and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. Her latest book is titled California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric- and What It Means for America's Power Grid.

Edward Chancellor is a British financial historian, finance journalist, and former investment strategist. In 2016, the Financial Analysts Journal called him "one of the great financial writers of our era," and in 2022, Fortune called him "one of the greatest financial historians alive." Holding degrees from Oxford and Cambridge, his latest book is titled The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest.

Dr. Joseph Wong is the University of Toronto's Vice-President, International. He is also the Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and a Professor of Political Science. He also was the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School from 2005 to 2014 and held the Canada Research Chair in health, democracy, and development from 2006 to 2016. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his latest book is titled From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia.

Dr. Douglass Rushkoff is a professor of media theory and digital economics at Queens/CUNY. Named one of the world's ten most influential intellectuals by MIT, he hosts the Team Human podcast and has written many award-winning books. Holding a Ph.D. from Utrecht University, his latest book is titled Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.

Dr. Lawrence C. Marsh is a professor emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, where he was the director of the Ph.D. program for over a decade. He has written hundreds of papers and books,  served on 78 Ph.D. dissertation committees, and has given several thousand lectures in statistics, econometrics, mathematical economics, microeconomic theory, and research methods in psychology. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University, his latest book is titled Optimal Money Flow: A New Vision of How a Dynamic-Growth Economy Can Work for Everyone.

Dr. Per Espen Stoknes is an organizational psychologist, a Senior Lecturer at the Norwegian Business School, and a TED speaker. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics, he's the author of several books, including Learning from the Future, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming, and his most recent book, Tomorrow's Economy - A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth.

Dr. Michael Bernstam is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute and an economic demographer. He was formerly an economic adviser to the Russian Parliament, the Central Bank of Russia, and the Russian government on several policy projects, and remains a regular commentator on the Russian economy.

James Bessen is an economist and technologist, who serves as the Executive Director of the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University. He was previously a successful innovator and CEO of a software company and has been widely cited in the press as well as by the US White House and Supreme Court, the European Parliament, and the Federal Trade Commission. His latest book is titled The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation.

Dr. Steven Miller is a Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at the School of Computing and Information Systems at the Singapore Management University, as well as the Founding Dean of the SMU School of Information Systems. Holding a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, his latest book is titled Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration.

Dr. J. Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics at U.C. Berkeley, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a weblogger at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and a fellow of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.  Prior to this, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration. Holding a Ph.D. from Harvard University, his latest book is titled, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century.

Dr. Maureen Perry-Jenkins is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a nationally renowned scholar whose contributions on the national, state, regional, and university levels have had a profound impact on family research. Her work focuses on the ways in which socio-cultural factors such as race, gender, and social class shape the mental health and family relationships of parents and their children. Holding a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State, her latest book is titled Work Matters: How Parents' Jobs Shape Children's Well-Being.

Dr. Kimberly Kay Hoang is an Associate Professor of Sociology, the Director of Global Studies at the University of Chicago, and an award-winning scholar, author, and teacher. She received the 2020 Lewis A Coser Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Sociological Theory— a mid-career award for Theoretical Agenda Setting. Her books and articles have been awarded over 18 prizes by several different professional associations. Holding a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley, her latest book is titled Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets.

Dr. Stephen Bell is a Professor of political economy in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. Prior to joining UQ in 1999, he held positions at Griffith University, the University of New England, and the University of Tasmania. Holding a Ph.D. from Griffith University, his latest book is titled Banking on Growth Models: China's Troubled Pursuit of Financial Reform and Economic Rebalancing.

Dr. Joseph Fishkin is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, where he teaches and writes about employment discrimination law, election law, constitutional law, education law, fair housing law, poverty and inequality, and distributive justice. Before joining the UCLA faculty he taught for a decade at the University of Texas School of Law, where he was the Marrs McLean Professor in Law. Holding a Ph.D. in Politics from Oxford University, his latest book is titled The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy.

Dr. Satish Nambisan is the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. His research interests lie in the broad areas of innovation management, entrepreneurship, and digital globalization. Holding a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Syracuse University, his latest book is titled The Digital Multinational: Navigating the New Normal in Global Business.

Dr. Phillip Levine is the Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, his latest book is titled A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students—and Universities.

Dr. Emma Saunders-Hastings is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University and a political theorist whose research focuses on political, economic, and social inequality, particularly concerning the role of private power. Before coming to Ohio State, she was a Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago and a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Holding a Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University, her latest book is titled Private Virtues, Public Vice: Philanthropy and Democratic Equality.

Dr. Dan Slater is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, specializing in the politics and history of enduring dictatorships and emerging democracies, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia.  Holding a Ph.D. in Political Science from Emory University, his latest book is titled From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia.

Tomer Rabinovich is a consultant to some of the biggest names in the online sales industry, a sought-after speaker at Amazon seller events around the world, and a trusted advisor to global aggregator companies. Passionate about sharing his valuable insights into Amazon selling, he founded Top Dog, a community where advanced sellers come together online, in person, and at live events. His latest book is titled Ride the Amazon Wave: The Pro Seller's Guide to Private Label Success.

Dr. Nate G. Hilger is a former professor of economics at Brown University and an economist and data scientist in Silicon Valley, now a researcher and writer.  While in academia he was a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and continues to hold an affiliation with the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown. In 2020 he served as a lead policy consultant on early childhood and non-K12 child development issues for Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, his latest book is titled The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis.

Dr. Masaaki Higashijima is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University in Japan. Holding a Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University, his research interests include comparative political economy, autocratic politics, regime change, ethnic politics, Central Asia, and political methodology. His latest book is titled The Dictator's Dilemma at the Ballot Box: Electoral Manipulation, Economic Maneuvering, and Political Order in Autocracies.

Dr. George DeMartino is a Professor of International Economics at the University of Denver. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, he teaches courses on international trade, the normative foundations of global economic policy, great books in political economy, and professional ethics in international affairs. His latest book is The Tragic Science: How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good).

Dr. Jacob Soll is a professor of philosophy, history, and accounting at the University of Southern California, as well as a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Holding a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, he is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Politico, the New Republic, PBS, Salon.com, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. His latest book is titled Free Market: The History of an Idea.

Dr. Tara Watson is a Professor of Economics at Williams College and a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institute.  Her research is focused on U.S. social policy, with interests in the safety net, health, and immigration. Her latest book is titled The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear.

Dr. Mark Pack is a British politician and the President of the Liberal Democrats party. Holding a Ph.D. in History, he was formerly the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the British parliament. His latest book is titled Polling Unpacked: The History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls.

Dr. Ian McManus is an Assistant Professor of Political Science whose work focuses on the effects of macroeconomic changes on political competition and social well-being. His research interests include welfare state politics, social inequality, gender equality, economic crises, labor markets, European politics, and the political economy of technology. His latest book is titled The Repoliticization of the Welfare State. 

Dr. Kevin Munger is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State University. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Communication, and Political Science Research & Methods. His latest book is titled Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture.

Michael R. Gordon is the national security correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and former chief military correspondent for The New York Times. He is also the co-author of three definitive histories of the United States' wars in Iraq: The Endgame, Cobra II, and The Generals' War. His latest book is titled Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump.

Dr. Stein Ringen is an Emeritus Fellow in the Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford as well as a Visiting Professor of Political Economy at King's College London. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, his latest book is titled How Democracies Live: Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies.

Brett Scott is an author, journalist, and financial hacker exploring the intersections between money systems, finance, and digital technology.  He is also a Senior Fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab, an Associate at the Institute of Social Banking, and an advisory group member of the Brixton Pound local currency. His latest book is titled Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets.

Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is the founder and chief executive officer of Valens Global and a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He has led numerous policy projects, including serving as the lead drafter of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's 2019 Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence. His latest book is titled Enemies Near and Far: How Jihadist Groups Strategize, Plot, and Learn.

Dr. John LaMattina is the former President of Global Research and Development at Pfizer, overseeing the drug discovery and development efforts of over 13,000 colleagues across the world. He is now a Senior Partner and a member of the Board of Directors of PureTech Health. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in Organic Chemistry, his latest book is titled Pharma and Profits: Balancing Innovation, Medicine, and Drug Prices.

Dr. David Dranove is the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he is also a Professor of Strategy and the faculty director of the Kellogg Ph.D. program. Dr. Lawton Burns is the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a Professor of Healthcare Management, Professor of Management, and Codirector of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management. Their latest book is titled Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America.

Dr. Robin Goldstein is the Director of the Cannabis Economics Group and an economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, where he studies the legal and illegal cannabis markets, with a focus on the effects of regulations and retail prices. Dr. Daniel Sumner is the Frank H. Buck, Jr., Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis and the Director of the University of California Agricultural Issues Center. He participates in research, teaching, and directs an outreach program related to public issues facing agriculture. Their latest book is titled Can Legal Weed Win? The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics.

Omid Malekan is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he lectures on blockchain and crypto. A nine-year veteran of the crypto industry, he spends most of his time as a consultant, educator, and advocate for this new way of building trust. Sometimes called the Explainer-in-Chief of blockchain technology, his latest book is titled Re-Architecting Trust: The Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms.

Dr. Paul Oyer is the Mary and Rankine Van Anda Entrepreneurial Professor, Professor of Economics, and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Labor Economics. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, he studies the economics of organizations and human resource practices. His latest book is titled An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports.

Dr. Leah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she also serves as the Director of the Industrial Relations Section. She is also the co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history and labor economics. Her latest book is titled Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success.

Dr. Mark Koyama is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oxford, his latest book is titled How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. 

Dr. Elizabeth Popp Berman is an associate professor of organizational studies at the University of Michigan and the author of Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. She is also a sociologist whose work is at the intersection of organizations, economic sociology, and the sociology of science and knowledge. Much of her work focuses on recent U.S. history and emphasizes the role of public policy.