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Steven David Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels (along with Stephen J. Dubner).
Steve 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. Levitt received his BA from Harvard University in 1989 and his PhD from MIT in 1994.
Thomas Hildebrandt is trying to bring the northern white rhinoceros back from the brink of extinction. The wildlife veterinarian tells Steve about the far-out techniques he employs, why we might see woolly mammoths in the future, and why he was frustrated the day the Berlin Wall came down.
Market distortions when agents are better informed: The value of information in real estate transactions. SD Levitt, C Syverson. The Review of Economics and Statistics 90 (4), 599-611. , 2008. 833. 2008. Juvenile crime and punishment. SD Levitt. Journal of political Economy 106 (6), 1156-1185.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is the debut non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. Published on April 12, 2005, by William Morrow, the book has been described as melding pop culture with economics.
Steve Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He is the Co-Founder of The Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC) and he directs the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory.
People I (Mostly) Admire: Steven Levitt, the unorthodox University of Chicago economist and co-author of the Freakonomics books, tracks down other high achievers — from sports superstars to Nobel Prize winners — and asks questions that only he would think to ask.
