Eric Rasmusen, now retired, is the former Dan R. and Catherine M. Dalton Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University-Bloomington. He has also held visiting positions at Yale and Harvard Law Schools, the Harvard and Tokyo Economics Departments, the UCLA and University of Chicago business schools, and Oxford's Nuffield College. His vitae can be found at https://www.rasmusen.org/vita.htm.

Born in 1958, Rasmusen graduated from Uni High, Urbana, Illinois, and received his Economics B.A./M.A from Yale in 1980 and his Economics PhD from MIT in 1984. He is best known as the author of Games and Information, which has been translated into Japanese, Chinese (Complex and Simplified), French, Italian, and Spanish, and has published over fifty articles in scholarly journals and several amicus briefs. His primary research areas are law and economics, the Japanese legal system, anti-trust law, and industrial organization. He is currently communications chairman of the MIT Free Speech Alliance, Precinctman of Monroe County Perry 19, and a teacher of seventh-grade math at Cedars Christian School.