
Robin Goldstein
For the past six years, Dr. Goldstein has been advising the California Bureau of Cannabis Control on the economic impacts of cannabis regulations and other economic issues. Dr. Goldstein is co-principal investigator on a set of new research grants from the Department of Cannabis Control for 2021-2023.
Dr. Goldstein has an A.B. in Neuroscience and Philosophy from Harvard, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Bordeaux. In 2005, he founded the Fearless Critic series of restaurant guides, which was later acquired by Workman Publishing in New York.
Dr. Goldstein is also the author of several books, including The Wine Trials and The Beer Trials, and was one of the subjects of Think Like a Freak, the 2014 book by Freakonomics authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. His next book is Legal Weed: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics, co-authored with Daniel Sumner, which will be published in May 2022 by the University of California Press.