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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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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 the 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 is also part of the Freakonomics podcast.

Chad Syverson is the J. Baum Harris Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research spans several topics, with a particular focus on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. His work has earned multiple National Science Foundation awards. He is on the editorial boards of several economics and business journals, has served on National Academies committees, and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. 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. Syverson joined the Chicago faculty in 2001.