Ben Klemens (born April 10, 1975[citation needed]) is an Australian economist, author, and co-host of the podcast 'Pod, Paper, Scissors'.

[1] He works for the US Treasury Department[2] and was previously a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center on Social and Economic Dynamics.

[4] Klemens is the author of the proposal to the Unicode consortium for the Falafel emoji,[5] which will be appearing across web platforms in 2019.

He has argued in a book entitled Math You Can't Use (ISBN 0815749422) and a law review article[10] that intangibles such as computer code and mathematics should not be patentable subject matter.

[14] His writings on the subject have appeared in the op-ed sections of The Wall Street Journal,[15] Ars Technica,[16][17] and The Washington Post.