# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-d-levitt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:54:19.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-d-levitt"
name: "Steven D. Levitt"
slug: "steven-d-levitt"
description: "Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels. Levitt is a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the field of crime. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's \"100 People Who Shape Our World\" in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu."
tagline: "American economist"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1967-05-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump