Ben Stein

Ben Stein is the most famous economics teacher in history. This is due to his iconic scene as the annoying economics teacher in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, which included the famous quotes “Anyone? Anyone?” and “Bueller? Bueller?”. These quotes have become standard in our daily life. The scene was even voted one of the 50 most famous scenes in American movie history.

But in real life, off screen, Ben Stein is a compelling, extremely humorous speaker about economics, politics and daily life in America. He is an award winning, best selling, economist, lawyer, and teacher (but funny and lively in real life). He studied economics at Columbia and Yale, and studied law at Yale under some of the most famous economists and jurists in the nation. He has written path-breaking analyses of how finance works, what motivates business decision making, what causes economic crises, and what resolves them.

Ben has been a columnist and analyst of economic, legal and cultural behavior for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, The Washington Post, Yahoo Finance and many other publications.

In 2009, he won the Malcolm Forbes Award for Excellence in Financial Writing.

Ben is also the author of dozens of books about economics and finance, the last several of which were New York Times best sellers—Yes, You Can Time Market; Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably; The Wiley Little Book of Bulletproof Investing; and The Wiley Little Book of Alternative Investments, among others. His books on finance in the last several years were co-written with the distinguished and much sought after asset manager Philip DeMuth.

He is a regular contributor to Fox News, a long time commentator on CBS Sunday Morning, and a very frequent guest on CNN.

Ben also writes a very long running column for The American Spectator and has been writing for NewsMax for years.

He is a frequent speaker to powerful groups of business and finance leaders, as well as to charitable and scholarly groups, where his skill is making even economics funny, touching, and understandable. His father, Herbert Stein, was known as the most humorous of economists and Ben followed in his footsteps.

But what really sets him apart is that he has also had a major career as a writer and performer in Hollywood. In addition to his work in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” Stein also played a teacher for three years on “The Wonder Years,” and was host and contestant for almost 1,000 episodes of “Win Ben Stein’s Money” on Comedy Central, for which he and co-host Jimmy Kimmel won an Emmy for Best Game Show Host. (The show itself won 7 Emmys.)

He was also host of the talk show, “Turn Ben Stein On,” on Comedy Central, and co-host of “Star Search” for three years on CBS. Ben was co-host of “America’s Most Smartest Model” on VH-1 and he wrote a number of highly award winning screenplays and teleplays.

Ben was an adjunct teacher of economics, politics, and culture at American University, The University of California at Santa Cruz, and Pepperdine University.

He was a speechwriter in The White House for Richard M. Nixon and for Gerald R. Ford. He was closely involved with the George W. Bush administration and through his father, the well known economist Herbert Stein, has had a pipeline into the inside of Washington since the Eisenhower Administration.

He is extremely involved in bringing acknowledgement and family recovery to the
surviving spouses, orphans, and parents of American warriors killed in the fight against terrorism. This has been and continues to be a major commitment in his life.

Ben is deeply involved in various cultural movements, especially those that question political correctness and halts inquiry into issues about evolution and life’s origins. He was the host of the controversial documentary about political correctness on campus, “Expelled.”

He lives with his wife, Alexandra Denman (former lawyer,) six cats and three large dogs in Beverly Hills. He is active in pro-animal and pro-life charitable events.