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Drs. Klein and Tabarrok have independently published research on numerous public policy topics.
| Daniel B. Klein is a Research Fellow at The Independent Institute and and Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from New York University and he has been an Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University; a Visiting Fellow in the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University; Visiting Scholar at the City University in Stockholm; Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine; and Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Stanford University. He is co-editor of the Independent Institute’s web site, FDAReview.org and General Director of the Civil Society Institute.
His books include Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit; What Do Economists Contribute?; Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct; A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty: Assist the Everyman; Assurance and Trust in a Great Society; and Three Libertarian Essays. His articles have appeared in Planning and Markets, The Independent Review, Constitutional Political Economy, Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Economics & Philosophy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic History, Economics and Politic, Law & Society Review, and other scholarly journals. |
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| Alexander Tabarrok is Research Director for The Independent Institute, Assistant Editor of The Independent Review, Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center, and Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, and he has taught at the University of Virginia and Ball State University. Co-author (with Daniel Klein) of The Independent Institute web site, FDAReview.org, Dr. Tabarrok is the editor of The Independent Institute books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science (Oxford University Press), The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (with David Beito and Peter Gordon, University of Michigan Press), and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime.
His papers have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The American Law and Economics Review, Kyklos, and many other journals. Dr. Tabarrok is an author of the monograph, An Analysis of Proposals for Constitutional Change in New Zealand and he has contributed chapters to a number of books. Dr. Tabarrok is the recipient of the Snavely Award, and he has been an Earhart Foundation Fellow and George A. and Frances Ball Foundation Fellow. Articles by Dr. Tabarrok have appeared in magazines and newspapers across the United States. |
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Contacts
Dr. Daniel B. Klein
Department of Economics
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
Faculty Page
Dr. Alexander Tabarrok
Department of Economics
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
Faculty page
Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank Robert Gaukel and Masha Rumer for research assistance and Nicholas Stehle, Rod Martin, Paul Theroux, and Penny Burbank for help designing and maintaining the web page.
The Board of Readers
The Board of Readers is composed of economists, lawyers, and medical experts who have conducted and published independent, academic studies on the FDA. Although no member of the board of readers is necessarily in agreement with everything in FDAReview.org, the board members have carefully reviewed the web page and approve broadly of its analysis and judgment. The board does not take responsibility for FDAReview.org.
- Dale H. Gieringer, Ph.D., Coordinator, California NORML
- Robert Higgs, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Political Economy, The Independent Institute, and Editor of The Independent Review
- Sam Kazman, J.D., General Counsel, Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Henry I. Miller, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and founding director of the FDA's Office of Biotechnology.
- Sam Peltzman, Ph.D., Sears Roebuck Professor of Economics and Financial Services, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
- Paul H. Rubin, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Emory University
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