The Economics Review

Siddharth Kara is a British Academy Global Professor and an Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. As an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery, he has authored three books and won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. His first book was adapted into a Hollywood film called Trafficked, and a feature film inspired by his latest book, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, is currently in preproduction.

Philip Howard is the Founder of Common Good, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates simplifying government, as well as a lawyer, renowned columnist, and author. In 2017, he was a member of President Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum, where his reports played a key role in influencing the Trump Administration's infrastructure proposals, including speeding up approval times. His latest book is titled Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions.

Dakin Campbell is the Chief Finance Correspondent at Business Insider. He is the publication's senior reporter covering Wall Street, after a decade at Bloomberg writing for its wire service, Businessweek, and Markets magazine. At Insider he writes and reports about Wall Street and the broader finance industry, often working with confidential sources to uncover issues that management teams and other subjects would rather keep quiet. His latest book is titled Going Public: How Silicon Valley Rebels Loosened Wall Street's Grip on the IPO and Sparked a Revolution.

Dr. Mordecai Kurz is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics-Emeritus at Stanford University, whose research work has covered a variety of problems in economic theory and policy. He has written extensively on growth theory, game theory, and the effect of market power on inequality and growth, and he has worked on many policy projects. He also served as a special economic advisor to President Carter’s Commission on Pension Policy in 1979. His latest book is titled  The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age.

Connor Boyack is the founder and president of Libertas Institute, an award-winning free market libertarian think tank located in Utah with a mission to advance the cause of liberty. He is the author of 37 books, including the popular Tuttle Twins children’s series, which have sold over 5 million copies. Named one of Utah's most politically influential people by The Salt Lake Tribune, Connor's leadership has changed over 100 laws covering a wide range of areas such as privacy, government transparency, property rights, drug policy, education, personal freedom, and more.

Senator Phil Gramm is a former U.S. Congressman and Senator from Texas, as well as the former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee between 1991 and 2001. Prior to this, he was a Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. He is now a Senior Partner at US Policy Metrics and a nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, he is an economist by training, and his latest book is titled The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases the Policy Debate.

Dr. Frank Dikötter is the Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a Dutch historian specializing in modern China. Prior to this, he was a Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is the author of a dozen books that have changed the way we look at the history of modern China and the winner of the prestigious BBC Samuel Johnson prize. His latest book is titled China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower.

Dr. Allen Morrison is a Professor of Global Management and the former CEO and Director General of the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University (ASU). Before joining ASU, he was the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair for Responsible Leadership and director of the Global CEO Center at IMD in Switzerland. His latest book is titled Enterprise China: Adopting a Competitive Strategy for Business Success.

Ethan Chorin is a former diplomat, senior political analyst, author, and environmental entrepreneur. From 2004 to 2006, he was one of a handful of US diplomats posted to Libya to help set up a US mission in the wake of the rapprochement with Colonel Gaddafi. Six years later, as co-director of an NGO working to help build medical infrastructure in Eastern Libya, he became a witness to the Benghazi attack and its aftermath. A year later, he was nominated by both Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. John McCain to succeed Chris Stevens as ambassador. From 2020-2021, he was Sr. Advisor to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the UAE. Holding a Ph.D. in Resource Economics from UC Berkeley, his latest book is titled Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink.

Dr. Marion Laboure is a senior economist and market strategist at Deutsche Bank, a lecturer at Harvard University, and a recognized expert in financial technology. In addition to designing her own financial technologies course at Harvard University, she speaks extensively about payment systems, blockchain, and digital currencies at conferences and seminars. Holding a Ph.D. from ENS, her latest book is titled Democratizing Finance: The Radical Promise of Fintech.