Richard Vedder

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Prof. Richard Kent Vedder (1940- ) is better known as 'Richard Vedder' or 'Richard K. Vedder'

Education:

B.A. (with honors) in Economics, Northwestern University, l962
M.A. in Economics, University of Illinois, l963
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Illinois, l965

Current Positions:

(emeritus, part-time) distinguished professor of economics at the Ohio University
Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute
member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Public Interest Institute
member of National Taxpayers Union's Board of Directors
adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
member of the Board of Scholars at the Virginia Institute for Public Policy

In 1993 Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway did a study for the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) about impact of immigration on the American economy. [1] In March 1994 AdTI published the report "Immigration and Unemployment: New Evidence" written by Richard Vedder, Lowell Gallaway and Stephen Moore. [2] [3] [4]

Later that year Vedder served as "peer-reviewer" for a pro-tobacco junk science report: Science, Economics, and Environmental Policy: A Critical Examination also published by AdTI.

There are 45 documents in the Tobacco Institute documents online mentioning Richard Vedder, many of them are confidental reports listing "hired guns' in academic white labcoats that will provide expert testimony.

Professor Richard Vedder (Ohio University) wrote an op-ed article on tax reform that appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer in April (newspaper in home district of Ways & Means Member Gradison). Copies were sent to Gradison and Ways & Means Member Pease. [5] Confidential report on allies, academics, in Ohio.

Richard Vedder also worked for some time together with Prof. Dwight R. Lee (another member of that peer review)

Dwight R. Lee, Richard K. Vedder, "Study Finds Americans Prefer Deficit Reduction over Tax Cuts", November 22, 1996
Tony Caporale, Dwight R. Lee, Richard K. Vedder, "Slowing Monetary Growth since 1984: A Public Choice Explanation", Public Choice, 1997 [6]

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