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Ray Fisman holds the Slater Family Chair in Behavioral Economics at Boston University. His research primarily focuses on the interplay between money, politics, and corruption. Fisman has previously served as the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and co-director of the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia University’s business school. His work has been published in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has received widespread coverage in popular media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Economist, and Washington Post. He is the author of several books aimed at bringing economic research to a wider audience, including 'Risky Business' (co-authored with Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein), which explores economics in selection markets, and a forthcoming book on the economics of business social responsibility slated for release by Yale University Press in 2026.
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