Jason M. Barr is a professor of economics at Rutgers University-Newark, and an affiliated member of the Rutgers Global Urban Systems (GUS) Ph.D. program. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on the economics of skyscrapers. Dr. Barr received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University (1992), an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College (1995), and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University (2002). He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics and the Eastern Economic Journal. And, for eleven years, he served on the board of the Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination.

Dr. Barr is the author of Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan’s Skyscrapers (OUP, 2016) and Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World’s Tallest Skyscrapers (Scribner 2014). His research has been featured in The Washington Post, the Economist, Curbed.com, and Architectural Record. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, StarTrek.com, Dezeen.com, Scientific American, and the Irish Independent. He currently writes the Skynomics Blog, a blog about skyscrapers, cities, and economics.