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cover of episode Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics

2024/3/13
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Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics) co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an early leader in applied microeconomics and how the Freakonomics media empire got started, along with his recent decision to retire from academic economics.

Transcript available here). 

*Jon Hartley) is an economics researcher with interests in international macroeconomics, finance, and labor economics and is currently an economics PhD student at Stanford University). He is also currently a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity), a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute), and a research associate at the Hoover Institution).*

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