Sam Peltzman es Profesor Emérito de Economía (Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus) en la Booth School of Business de la Universidad de Chicago, donde integra el cuerpo docente desde 1973. Anteriormente enseñó en la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles (UCLA) y fue economista senior del Consejo de Asesores Económicos del Presidente de Estados Unidos. Su investigación se centra en la interfaz entre el sector público y la economía privada, en particular la economía de la regulación gubernamental y la organización industrial: la regulación bancaria, la seguridad automotriz, la innovación farmacéutica, el crecimiento del gobierno, la economía política de la educación pública y el análisis económico de votantes y legisladores. Es autor o editor de varios libros, entre ellos Political Participation and Government Regulation (University of Chicago Press, 1998) y, junto a Clifford Winston, Deregulation of Network Industries: What's Next (Brookings, 2000). Es editor del Journal of Law and Economics y Director Emérito del George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, que dirigió entre 1991 y 2005. Integra el Council of Academic Advisers del American Enterprise Institute. En 2026 fue distinguido con el Norman Maclean Faculty Award de la Universidad de Chicago por su contribución a la docencia y la vida estudiantil.

Sam Peltzman is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he has been on the faculty since 1973. He previously taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and served as senior staff economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers. His research focuses on the interface between the public sector and the private economy, including the economics of government regulation and industrial organization: the regulation of banking, automobile safety, pharmaceutical innovation, the growth of government, the political economy of public education, and the economic analysis of voters and legislators. He is the author or editor of several books, including Political Participation and Government Regulation (University of Chicago Press, 1998) and, with Clifford Winston, Deregulation of Network Industries: What's Next (Brookings, 2000). He is an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics and Director Emeritus of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, which he led from 1991 to 2005. He serves on the Council of Academic Advisers of the American Enterprise Institute. In 2026 he was named recipient of the Norman Maclean Faculty Award from the University of Chicago for his contribution to teaching and student life.