Glen Whitman

Whitman is a professor of economics at California State University, Northridge, where he has been on the faculty since 2000.{{cite web |title=Meet the Authors of Economics of the Undead |date=March 11, 2014 |website=College of Business and Economics – Events |publisher=California State University, Northridge |url=http://www.csun.edu/busecon/events/meet-authors-economics-undead |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151229214514/http://www.csun.edu/busecon/events/meet-authors-economics-undead |archivedate=2015-12-29 }} He has also served as a research fellow at the libertarian-oriented Independent Institute, a public policy think tank.

His expertise is in microeconomics, applied game theory, and economic analysis of law. He received his Ph.D. in economics from New York University in 2000 and his undergraduate degree in economics and politics from American University in 1994.{{cite web |title=Glen Whitman |website=Cato Unbound: A Journal of Debate |publisher=Cato Institute |url=http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/glen-whitman |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008063412/http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/glen-whitman |archivedate=2016-10-08 }}

Whitman's 2014 book Economics of the Undead, co-edited with James Dow, is an academic collection of essays that use zombies to explain and demonstrate concepts of economics.{{cite news |title=Zombie Studies Gain Ground on College Campuses |first=Erica E. |last=Phillips |date=March 3, 2014 |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/zombie-studies-gain-ground-on-college-campuses-1393906046 |url-access=subscription }}{{cite book |editor-last1=Whitman |editor-first1=Glen |editor-last2=Dow |editor-first2=James |title=Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science |url={{Google books|tYkNBAAAQBAJ|page=285|plainurl=y}} |year=2014 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-1442235038 |pages=284–285}} He is also the author of Strange Brew: Alcohol and Government Monopoly (2003).{{cite book |last=Whitman |first=Douglas Glen |title=Strange Brew: Alcohol and Government Monopoly |url={{Google books|gAwNAAAACAAJ|plainurl=y}} |year=2003 |publisher=Independent Institute |isbn=978-0945999881 }}

In his second career, Whitman has written for the FOX science-fiction series Fringe, the El Rey Network series Matador, the FX series The Strain, and NBC's The Blacklist: Redemption.{{cite web

|title=Economist and TV Writer Glen Whitman on Making It in the Industry as an Outsider |date=October 3, 2016 |website=Free Minds |type=podcast |author=Korchula Productions |publisher=Podbean |url=https://freemindsfilm.podbean.com/e/economist-and-tv-writer-glen-whitman-on-making-in-the-industry-as-an-outsider/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720195800/https://freemindsfilm.podbean.com/e/economist-and-tv-writer-glen-whitman-on-making-in-the-industry-as-an-outsider/ |archivedate=2018-07-20 }}

Along with his writing partner Robert Chiappetta, Whitman was a science advisor to the creators of Fringe before its first season.{{cite interview |first1=Robert |last1=Chiappetta |first2=Glen |last2=Whitman June 15, 2011 |interviewer=Susan K. Lewis |title='Fringe' Science |date=July 28, 2011 |work=NOVA Online |location=Boston |publisher=WGBH Educational Foundation |url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/fringe-science.html |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102132955/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/fringe-science.html |archivedate=2017-11-02 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.mevio.com/episode/294645/settlers-of-catan-with-glen-whitman-from|title=Glen Whitman on PGZ Podcast|work=pizzagameszombies.com|accessdate=September 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902120226/http://www.mevio.com/episode/294645/settlers-of-catan-with-glen-whitman-from|archive-date=September 2, 2012|url-status=dead}} Whitman and Chiappetta served as executive story editors on Fringe, and contributed several scripts to the series.{{Cite web|url=http://www.film.com/celebrities/glen-whitman/26275373|title=Glen Whitman from Fringe|work=Film.com|accessdate=November 12, 2010}}

• "Ability" (season 1, ep. 14) (teleplay by co-executive producer David H. Goodman, based on a story by Whitman and Chiappetta)
• "Of Human Action" (season 2, ep. 7)
• "The Bishop Revival" (season 2, ep. 4)
• "6955 kHz" (season 3, ep. 6)
• "6B" (season 3, ep. 14)
• "And Those We've Left Behind" (season 4, ep. 6)
• "A Better Human Being" (season 4, ep. 13) (teleplay by co-executive producers Alison Schapker and Monica Owusu-Breen, based on a story by Chiappetta and Whitman)

As a blogger on topics including language and linguistics, Whitman is credited with coining the word snowclone in 2004.{{cite web |url= http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000350.html |title=Snowclones: lexicographical dating to the second |date=January 16, 2004 |first=Geoffrey K. |last=Pullum |work=Language Log | access-date=January 5, 2010}}{{cite web |title=Phrases for Lazy Writers in Kit Form Are the New Clichés |origyear=January 14, 2004 |date=December 6, 2005 |first=Glen |last=Whitman |website=Agoraphilia |quote=Shortly after composing this post, I proposed a word for these formulaic clichés: 'snowclones.' With Pullum's blessing, my coinage has become the term of art. |url=http://agoraphilia.blogspot.com/2004/01/phrases-for-lazy-writers-in-kit-form.html?m |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725131958/http://agoraphilia.blogspot.com/2004/01/phrases-for-lazy-writers-in-kit-form.html?m=0 |archivedate=2018-07-25 }}

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