Jon Hartley is an economist specializing in finance, labor economics, and macroeconomics. He is currently a research fellow at the Civitas Institute, a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and an affiliated scholar at the Mercatus Center. He also hosts the podcast Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century. Previously, he worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and in various policy and governmental roles at the World Bank, I.M.F., Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Bank of Canada. He received his B.A. in economics and mathematics from the University of Chicago, an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.P.P. from Harvard. He is completing his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford.