Andrei Shleifer is a Russian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1991. Shleifer was awarded the biennial John Bates Clark Medal in 1999 for his seminal works in three fields: corporate finance, the economics of financial markets, and the economics of transition.

James Bradford "Brad" DeLong is an American economic historian who has been a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley since 1993.