Editing Steven Levitt (section)

==Career==
Levitt attended [[St. Paul Academy and Summit School]] in [[St. Paul, Minnesota]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1989 with his [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in [[economics]] ''summa cum laude'', writing his senior thesis on rational bubbles in horse breeding, and then worked as a consultant at Corporate Decisions, Inc. (CDI) in Boston advising Fortune 500 companies. He received his [[PhD]] in economics from [[MIT]] in 1994.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Poterba|first=James M.|date=2005|title=Steven D. Levitt: 2003 John Bates Clark Medalist|journal=The Journal of Economic Perspectives|volume=19|issue=3|pages=181–198|doi=10.1257/089533005774357798|jstor=4134979|issn=0895-3309|doi-access=free}}</ref> He is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor and the director of [[Gary Becker Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/|title=Untitled Document|access-date=5 December 2016|archive-date=12 August 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050812015604/http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/|url-status=dead}}</ref> at the [[University of Chicago]]. In 2003 he won the [[John Bates Clark Medal]], awarded every two years by the [[American Economic Association]] to the most promising U.S. economist under the age of 40.
In April 2005 Levitt published his first book, ''Freakonomics'' (coauthored with [[Stephen J. Dubner]]), which became a [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' bestseller]].  Levitt and Dubner also started a blog devoted to Freakonomics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freakonomics.com//|title=Freakonomics – The hidden side of everything|access-date=5 December 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204205913/http://freakonomics.com/|archive-date=4 December 2016}}</ref>