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Raymond Fisman

Professor, Columbia Business School

3022 Broadway, Uris Hall 823 New York, NY 10027 UNITED STATES Phone: 212-854-9157 Fax: 212-854-9895 rf250@columbia.edu

Raymond Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School. Professor Fisman received his Ph.D. in Business Economics at Harvard University. He worked as a consultant in the Africa Division of the World Bank for a year before moving to Columbia in 1999. Professor Fisman's research focuses on corruption and more broadly on what makes people do bad things (he also sometimes thinks about why people do good things). His work has been published in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He writes a monthly column for Slate magazine and is the author of Economic Gangsters (with Edward Miguel).

Focus: Economy, Ethics, Globalization, Governance, United States, Americas, Global

Related Resources:

• Economic Gangsters (Briefings)
• Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations (Videos)

Last Updated: Nov 17, 2008