Dr. Dietrich Vollrath is a professor of economics at the University of Houston, and has served as chair of that department since Fall 2019. His research focuses on economic growth and has appeared in several economics journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. He is a past recipient of the Ross Lence Teaching Award, and is the co-author of a popular textbook on economic growth. Dr. Vollrath is also the author of Fully Grown (2020), a book about how America’s recent growth slowdown, rather than being a sign of economic failure, is actually a sign of our economic success. He blogs regularly at the Growth Economics Blog.