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About the Authors
Drs. Klein and Tabarrok have independently published research on numerous public policy topics.
| Daniel B. Klein is Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University and Research Fellow at The Independent Institute. He received his Ph.D. in economics from New York University, has taught at the University of California at Irvine, and has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Univeresity, Bowling Green State University, and the City University in Stockholm, Sweden. Professor Klein’s work has focused on the FDA, toll roads, urban transit, auto emissions, credit reporting, quality and safety assurance, discovery of opportunity, and spontaneous order. He is the co-author of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit (Brookings Institution, 1997), editor of Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct (University of Michigan Press, 1997), and editor of What Do Economists Contribute? (New York University Press and Macmillan/Palgrave, 1999). He scholarly articles have appeared in Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic History, Economics and Politics, Economics and Philosophy, Law and Society Review, Constitutional Political Economy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, History of Political Economy, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, The Independent Review, and numerous other journals. |
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| Alexander Tabarrok is Vice President and Research Director at The Independent Institute and Assistant Editor of The Independent Review. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, and he has taught at the University of Virginia and Ball State University. Dr. Tabarrok has published widely in the field of political economy with academic research in empirical law and economics, the FDA, public finance, voting theory, constitutional economics, and other areas. Papers by Dr. Tabarrok have appeared in the Journal of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, The Independent Review, Kyklos, and many other scholarly journals. He is the editor of the forthcoming books, Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science (Oxford University Press, 2002), The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society (with David Beito and Peter Gordon, University of Michigan Press, 2002), and Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime (2002). 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. |
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Contacts
Dr. Daniel B. Klein
Associate Professor of Economics
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Homepage: http://lsb.scu.edu/~dklein/
Dr. Alexander Tabarrok
Vice President and Research Director
The Independent Institute
100 Swan Way
Oakland, CA 94621-1428
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Acknowledgements
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.
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- 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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