Scott B. Sumner is Professor of Economics at Bentley University. In 2012, the Chronicle of Higher Education referred to Sumner as “among the most influential” economist bloggers, along with N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard University and Paul Krugman of Princeton University. In 2012, Foreign Policy ranked Sumner jointly with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke 15th on its list of "100 Top Global Thinkers." Professor Sumner is a contributor to numerous scholarly volumes, and his articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Political Economy; Business and Society Review;Journal of Policy Modeling; and Economic Inquiry.