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Jeffrey A. Miron
Senior Fellow
Jeffrey A. Miron is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His area of expertise is the economics of libertarianism, with particular emphasis on the economics of illegal drugs. Miron has served on the faculty at the University of Michigan and as a visiting professor at the Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. and the Department of Economics, Harvard University. From 1992-1998, he was chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University. He is the author of Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition and The Economics of Seasonal Cycles, in addition to numerous opeds and journal articles. He has been the recipient of an Olin Fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Earhart Foundation Fellowship, and a Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship. Miron received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Swarthmore College in 1979 and a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T. in 1984.
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"Did Deregulation Cause the Financial Crisis?," Cato Policy Report, July/August 2009.
Opinion and Commentary
"Did the Stimulus Work?," The New York Times, November 1, 2009
"Public Option: Treatment Worse Than the Disease," CNN.com, October 29, 2009
"Financial Market Reform," Reason (Online), October 27, 2009
"Cash for Clunkers Is a Clunker," CNN.com, August 3, 2009
"The Case for Doing Nothing," Reason, July 9, 2009
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"'Letting the Sick Die on the Street'," November 3, 2009
"The Fed and Policy Uncertainty," October 27, 2009
"Emergency Aid to Seniors? No Way," October 15, 2009
"Perpetuating Bad Housing Policy," October 12, 2009
"A Federal Ban on Texting While Driving?," September 28, 2009
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Jeffrey A. Miron discusses capping executive pay on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight October 28, 2009 [Flash Video, 10:06]
Jeffrey A. Miron on more stimulus spending on FBN's Cavuto October 6, 2009 [Flash Video, 03:19]
Jeffrey A. Miron discusses the rescue bill on FBN October 3, 2009 [Flash Video, 03:53]
Jeffrey A. Miron gives his testimony on systemic risk on C-SPAN September 25, 2009 [Flash Video, 05:30]
Jeffrey A. Miron discusses the FDIC on Federal News Radio's The Federal Drive September 25, 2009 [Flash Audio, 09:02]
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