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.
Greg Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard and the author of the best-selling economics textbooks of his generation. A leading New Keynesian theorist, he chaired the President's Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush, taught Harvard's famous Ec10 introductory course, advised Mitt Romney's campaigns, and founded the Pigou Club to champion carbon taxes. His textbook 'Principles of Economics' has sold more than two million copies and been translated into about twenty languages.