Steven Landsburg is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester and the author of More Sex Is Safer Sex, The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, Can You Outsmart an Economist?, The Big Questions, two textbooks on economics and over thirty journal articles in mathematics, economics, and philosophy.

He’s been hailed by Steven Levitt, co-author with Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics, as ‘better than anyone else at making economics interesting to non-economists’ and praised by political satirist and journalist P. J. O’Rourke for writing ‘funny, jargon-free, shocking, and true essays on our material circumstances’.

He inaugurated the popular ‘Everyday Economics’ column in Slate magazine and has written for Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications.