ALLISON SCHRAGER is an economist and journalist at Quartz. She has been a regular columnist for the Economist, Reuters, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Schrager was a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a speaker at the International Economic Forum of the Americas and has made numerous appearances on TV and radio, including MSNBC, NPR, CBS, Bloomberg, CNBC, Vice, Al-Jazeera, Huffington Post Live, and the BBC. She has a PhD in economics from Columbia University, currently teaches at New York University, and lives in New York City.
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