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Betsey Stevenson
Betsey Stevenson is a labor economist at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy who has spent her career proving that the things people assume are soft - happiness, marriage, who does the dishes - are measurable, and that measuring them changes policy. She served as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor and as a member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, co-authored a bestselling Principles of Economics textbook, co-hosts the Think Like An Economist podcast, sits on Lyft's board, and is now turning her attention to what a post-AGI economy does to human flourishing.
Justin Wolfers
Justin Wolfers is an Australian-American economist who turns dense data into plain talk for the rest of us. A professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan's Ford School, he co-hosts the Think Like an Economist podcast with his partner Betsey Stevenson, writes the Platypus Economics newsletter, and is one of the most quoted economic voices in American media. His work spans macroeconomics, labor markets, prediction markets, sports, and the surprisingly stubborn question of whether money buys happiness (his answer: more than people think).