Konstantin Sonin is John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor at the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He earned an MSc and PhD in mathematics from Moscow State University, was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, served on the faculty of the New Economic School (NES) and Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, and was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Now he is affiliated with HSE and Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics as a Visiting Professor and Adviser.