Justin James Michael Wolfers, born in 1972, is an Australian economist in addition to public policy scholar. He is professor of economics as well as public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at a University of Michigan, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Wolfers holds a Ph.D. in Economics 1997–2001 and an Master of Economics 2000, both from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney 1991–1994. He had a Fulbright Scholarship. Wolfers attended James Ruse Agricultural High School 1985–1990. He is mentioned for his research on happiness and its relation to income.
Wolfers moved to the University of Michigan as professor of economics and public policy beginning in fall 2012 with his partner, fellow economist ]
In 2007, he was named in David Leonhardt's column as one of 13 young economists who were the future of economics. In 2014, he was named by International Monetary Fund as one of the 25 brightest young economists who are expected to style the world's thinking about the global economy in the future.
In 2019, he and Stevenson wrote two economics textbooks, Principles of Microeconomics and Principles of Macroeconomics, published by Macmillan Learning. The authors' intention was to reflect a school of thought where "every decision a adult makes as an economic decision" and offer examples students could relate to in profile to better reflect the real world.