Microeconomics: Edition 4

Austan Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he joined the faculty in 1995. From 2009 to 2011, he served in Washington as a Member and then Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and the youngest member of the President’s Cabinet. He is a past Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University and a PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of technology. Goolsbee is also President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Steven Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he directs the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has taught at the University of Chicago since 1997. In 2004, Levitt was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, and in 2006, he was named one of Time magazine’s “100 People Who Shape Our World.” He co-authored a series of books on popular economics starting with Freakonomics and hosts the podcast People I Mostly Admire.

Chad Syverson is the George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He joined the Chicago faculty in 2001. His research spans several topics, with a particular focus on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. He has been an editor of the Journal of Political Economy and RAND Journal of Economics, has served on multiple National Academies committees, is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He earned bachelor’s degrees in economics and mechanical engineering from the University of North Dakota, and a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland.