Dr. Steven Landsburg is a professor of Economics at the University of Rochester and the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, and his most recent book, More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics. Steven Landsburg is a world authority on economics and the numerical state of affairs, and he shares his knowledge with razor-sharp cleverness.  

Do you know why tall people earn more money than their shorter competitors? Do you know why parents of sons stay married more often than parents who have only daughters? Do you know why it makes no sense for you to give charitable donations to more than one organization? Steven Landsburg does. His solutions to the many ways that modern life is unfair or inefficient are both jaw-dropping and maddeningly defensible. Represented exclusively by Leading Authorities, Steven Landsburg speaks with wit and reason when addressing real-life problems and coming up with logical answers. By the numbers.

When the world-renowned mathematician André Weil inspired his ideas and mathematical creativity, Steven Landsburg decided to pursue the power of numbers as a career. Since studying at both the University of Chicago and Princeton, his reputation has soared exponentially. On the academic front, Steven Landsburg's work has influenced algebraic K-theory, quantum game theory, module patching, philosophy of science, and moral philosophy. And within the realm of popular culture, his work has appeared in Forbes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

In addition, Steven Landsburg has penned two economics textbooks, a forthcoming text on general relativity and cosmology, and over 30 journal articles in mathematics, economics and philosophy. Problem solving you can count on.

Steven Landsburg currently writes a monthly column on "everyday economics" for Slate magazine. The subjects of the columns cover a wide range of "equations" and often draw on current affairs. Steven Landsburg has discussed the national debt, the obesity crisis, payments to Hurricane Katrina evacuees in New Orleans, and salary caps in the NFL. Alternatively, Steven Landsburg dicusses recent research in micro-economics and its implications. In this vein, he has discussed the value of mobile phones and driving, the (career) cost of motherhood, and why modern day Scrooges are more generous than we think. He has appeared as a commentator on the PBS/Turner Broadcasting series Damn Right and has made over 200 appearances on radio and television broadcasts over the past few years.

"Logic is most enlightening when it challenges us to see the world in a whole new way."