Slater Family Professor in Behavioral Economics
Fields: Development, Behavioral
Ray Fisman holds the Slater Family Chair in Behavioral Economics at Boston University. Previously, he was the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and co-director of the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia University’s business school. His research focuses primarily on money in politics and corruption. His work has appeared in leading economics journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics, and it has been widely covered in the popular press, in such outlets as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, the Economist, and the Washington Post. He is the author of a number of books that aim to bring economic research to a wider audience, most recently Risky Business (with Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein) on the economics of selection markets; his book on the economics of business social responsibility is forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2026.