Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2016. He founded, hosted, and ran NPR’s Planet Money from 2008 to 2013. He then became an economics writer and columnist for The New York Times Magazine. He has won the Peabody, Polk, and duPont-Columbia Awards. He hosts the Passion Economy podcast, based on the ideas in this book, for Luminary Media and cofounded Three Uncanny Four, a podcast company. Davidson was the technical adviser for the film The Big Short, working closely with its writer and director, Adam McKay. He and McKay were executive producers of the Amazon television program This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy, starring Kal Penn. Davidson is married to the journalist and novelist Jen Banbury; they live with their son in Brooklyn, New York.
