Steven Landsburg

Professor of Economics at Simon Business School

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  • Simon Business School

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Biography

Simon Business School

Steven E. Landsburg (born February 24, 1954) is an American professor of economics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. From 1989 to 1995, he taught at Colorado State University. Landsburg is also an outspoken commentator on economic, legal, and political issues whose comments have sometimes been regarded as controversial.

Landsburg was an undergraduate at the University of Rochester. Landsburg received a PhD in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1979.

Teaching

Landsburg teaches intermediate and advanced microeconomics at the University of Rochester. He was promoted from adjunct associate professor to professor during the 2005–2006 academic year and in 2007 he received the University's Professor of the Year in Social Sciences award.

Books

  • Price Theory and Applications (1989)
  • The Armchair Economist (1993)
  • Macroeconomics (1996)
  • Fair Play (1997)
  • More Sex is Safer Sex, The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics (2007)
  • The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics (2009)
  • Can You Outsmart an Economist? (2018)

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