Austan Goolsbee
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Austan Goolsbee is currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he specializes in the application of economics to the Internet and new technology fields.
He is also an expert on taxation. He is a leading scholar with some three or four dozen published papers in various peer-reviewed journals. He formerly wrote the Dismal Science column for Slate.com, an Internet culture magazine owned by The Washington Post. In April 2006, began writing the Economic Scene columns at the New York Times.
Goolsbee won an Alfred Sloan fellowship and is a Fulbright scholar.
He was the economic advisor to Barack Obama in Obama's successful U.S. Senate Campaign in Illinois.