Crain�s Chicago Business Names Austan Gooslbee One of �40 Under 40�

Austan Goolsbee is featured on this year’s list of smart, creative and highly ambitious individuals complied by Crain’s Chicago Business. Goolsbee, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, is described by fellow University of Chicago economist and PhD classmate Steve Levitt as someone who “asks questions people care about.” His ability to popularize economics has made Goolsbee popular in the media. He contributes a monthly column to the New York Times as well as makes appearances on NPR, PBS and Slate. Topics he has commented on include: education and the success rate of terrorists, TiVo’s affect on advertising along with the real estate bubble and brokers incomes.

Goolsbee, who joined the GSB as a professor when he was 25, was recently named a Fulbright Scholar for 2006-07. He will research Internet taxation in the U.S. and European Union while spending part of the upcoming academic year at the London School of Economics and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, also in London.

You can learn more about Goolsbee’s take on “everyday” economics by reading:

• In iTunes War, France Has Met the Enemy. Perhaps It Is France, New York Times
• Bubble-lusions: Why most real-estate agents aren't getting rich, Slate
• TiVo and Advertisers Face-off: Austan Goolsbee Comments on NPR
• Even for Shoe Bombers, Education and Success Are Linked, New York Times