스티븐 레빗

소개

스티븐 데이비드 레빗(Steven David Levitt, 1967년 5월 29일 ~ )은 미국의 경제학자이다. 2003년에 존 베이츠 클라크 메달을 수상하였다. 스티븐 더브너와 함께 《괴짜 경제학》을 공동 저술하였다.

Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels. Levitt is a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the field of crime. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.