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Benjamin Zycher
Adjunct Scholar
Benjamin Zycher is a Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress and President of Benjamin Zycher Economics Associates. He is also a member of the editorial advisory board of Regulation.
Dr. Zycher is a former senior economist at the RAND Corporation, a former vice president for research at the Milken Institute, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Western Economic Association International. He is also a former adjunct professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles and the former editor of the quarterly public policy journal Jobs & Capital. Dr. Zycher was a senior staff economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the first two years of the Reagan administration. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California Los Angeles (1979).
Dr. Zycher's research focuses on the economic and political effects of regulation, government spending, taxation and counterterrorism public expenditures. He has done considerable work as well on health care policy and the economics of the pharmaceutical sector, and on energy and environmental policy. Dr. Zycher published work on long-term trends in economic performance and military capability, the use of trade policy in pursuit of foreign policy goals, the modern performance of the Chinese economy, and measures of burdensharing within alliances. He is the author of "Defense Economics" and "OPEC" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (forthcoming 2007).
Articles and Newsletters
"Keeping the Power On," Regulation Magazine, Vol.23, no. 4, Winter 2000.
"Mortgage Lending, Discrimination, and Taxation by Regulation," by Benjamin Zycher and Timothy A. Wolfe, Regulation Magazine, Vol.17, no. 2, Spring 1994.
"Insurance Price Controls, 'Affordability,' and Taxation by Regulation," Regulation Magazine, Vol.15, no. 2, Spring 1992.
"Accounting for Costs and Cost Biases," Regulation Magazine, Vol.15, no. 2, Spring 1992.
"Market Deregulation of the Electric Utility Sector," Regulation Magazine, Vol.15, no. 1, Winter 1992.
Opinion and Commentary
"Do Californians Really Need Even More Lawsuits?," Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2000
"When Schools Already Get so Much Money, Do They Need More?," Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1999