For example, his An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances (2000) analyzes a hand-written 'accounting' of a criminal gang, and draws conclusions about the income distribution among gang members.

His work on various economics topics, including crime, politics and sports, includes over 60 academic publications. Levitt and Dubner also started a blog devoted to Freakonomics. Dubner), which became a New York Times bestseller. In April 2005 Levitt published his first book, Freakonomics (coauthored with Stephen J. In 2003 he won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years by the American Economic Association to the most promising U.S. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor and the director of Gary Becker Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1994. (CDI) in Boston advising Fortune 500 companies. He graduated from Harvard University in 1989 with his AB in economics summa cum laude, writing his senior thesis on rational bubbles in horse breeding, and then worked as a consultant at Corporate Decisions, Inc. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.

He was chosen as one of Time magazine's '100 People Who Shape Our World' in 2006. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago as well as the Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change at the University of Chicago which incubates the Data Science for Everyone coalition. Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the field of crime, and is currently the William B. Steven David Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels (along with Stephen J. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( PhD)

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