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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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Cato Studies
"The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition," by Jeffrey A. Miron and Katherine Waldock, White Paper no. 30, September 27, 2010.
Articles and Newsletters
"Rethinking Redistribution," National Affairs, Winter 2011.
"The Case Against the Fiscal Stimulus," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 33, No. 2, Spring 2010.
"Did Deregulation Cause the Financial Crisis?," Cato Policy Report, July/August 2009.
Opinion and Commentary
"Cutting Expenditure Is A Good Thing," RealClearMarkets.com, April 26, 2011
"Should Governments Subsidize Health Insurance?," Huffington Post, March 25, 2011
"More Than Just Greed," The New York Times (Online), January 30, 2011
"Limiting Free Speech Isn't the Answer," CNN.com, January 15, 2011
"Strict Gun Control Will Seem Like War on Drugs," Bloomberg News, January 13, 2011
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"Should the U.S. Restrict Immigration?," July 13, 2010
"Why Limits On Banker Bonuses Are Meaningless," July 7, 2010
"Gun Control Advocates Should Applaud the Supreme Court," July 5, 2010
"A 10-Point, Libertarian, SOTU Address," January 27, 2010
"'Letting the Sick Die on the Street'," November 3, 2009
Events
"Resolved: America Should Legalize Drugs," June 15, 2011 [Policy Forum]
"28th Annual Monetary Conference," November 18, 2010 [Conference]
"Libertarianism, from A to Z," May 18, 2010 [Book Forum]
Multimedia
Jeffrey A. Miron speaks about the effects of 40 years of drug prohibition. (June 20, 2011) [Cato Video, 06:23]
Resolved: America Should Legalize Drugs with Robert DuPont, M.D. and Tim Lynch (June 15, 2011) [Events, 01:19:26]
Jeffrey A. Miron discusses the debt ceiling on FBN's Lou Dobbs Tonight (June 9, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 03:39]
Jeffrey A. Miron discusses the failure of the War on Drugs on Russia Today's Cross Talk (June 7, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 25:42]
Jeffrey A. Miron discusses entitlements on FBN's Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano (June 6, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 03:40]
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