Steven D. Levitt is a very successful economist. Know for his work done over crime. He won the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal and is currently a Service Professor of Economics at the university of Chicago. He is also the director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Levitt was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy. He also co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. One of his biggest honors was that he was chosen as one of the Time magazine’s “100 People Who Shape Our World” in 2006.
Stephen J. Dubner has written many articles and is best known for being co-author of Freakonomics. He also wrote Turbulent Souls/Choosing My Religion, Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper, and the children’s book The Boy With Two Belly Buttons. Dubner received a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Columbia University where he later on taught in the English department. Dubner was a story editor at The New York Times Magazine.