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May 16, 2005
450 Reminders to the Liberal Media
Last week, the Cato Institute issued a new advertisement listing 450 economists, including 5 Nobel laureates, from across the country who have publicly endorsed personal accounts for Social Security. This may be the first time you’ve heard about this because the Washington Post and the New York Times haven’t reported it. Neither has USA Today or the LA Times. According to a spokesman at Cato, it hasn’t been reported on any of the major TV networks, either. No one is reporting this story.
All of this, of course, is completely unconscionable.
Would it be newsworthy if 450 climatologists signed a joint petition saying that the ozone layer was being depleted? Or, to stay on point, would it be newsworthy if 450 economists jointly agreed that President Bush was WRONG to endorse personal accounts? Would the liberal media report it then? Of course they would. They would report the story even if 450 Hollywood actors agreed that personal accounts were wrong, and they aren’t even experts.
But when 450 economists — people whose expertise we rely on when it comes to fiscal matters like Social Security — collectively agree that personal accounts are the way to go, the liberal media turns into a pack of church mice.
If you favor personal accounts and you believe that this story is being VASTLY under-reported, be sure to write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. LET‘S MAKE IT A STORY. If you run a blog, write about it. If you host a radio show, talk about it. If you speak in front of community groups, give a speech about it. Let’s get out the word.
And, with a hat tip to the Cato Institute for putting the petition together, I’m reprinting the 450 economists below.
William J. Abernathy
David Abraham
Burton A. Abrams
University of Delaware
Douglas K. Adie
Ohio University
Varul Agarwal
Robert A. Agnew
FMC Corp.
William Albrecht
University of Iowa
Donald L. Alexander
Western Michigan University
Kingsley Allen
Independent Wealth Inc.
William R. Allen
UCLA
Ogden O. Allsbrook Jr.
University of Georgia
Ryan C. Amacher
University of Texas
Annelise Anderson
Hoover Institution
Gary Anderson
University of California — Northridge
Martin Anderson
Hoover Institution
Wayne Angell
Angell Economics
Joseph R. Antos
American Enterprise Institute
Jim Araji
University of Idaho
Richard K. Armey
former U.S. House Majority Leader
John Baden
Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
Howard Baetjer
Towson University
Charles W. Baird
California State University
Anatol Balbach
Private economist
Ray Ball
University of Chicago
A. Paul Ballantyne
University of Colorado
King Banaian
St. Cloud State University
Andy Barnett
Auburn University
Atin Basu
Virginia Military Institute
Stacie Beck
University of Delaware
James Beckwith
North Carolina Central University
Don Bellante
University of South Florida
James Bennett
George Mason University
Bruce L. Benson
Florida State University
M. Douglas Berg
Sam Houston State University
John E. Berthoud
National Taxpayers Union
John J. Bethune
Barton College
Bob Bise
Orange Coast College
Cecil E. Bohannon
Ball State University
Donald R. Booth
Chapman University
G. Geoffrey Booth
Michigan State University
Karl J. Borden
University of Nebraska
George Borts
Brown University
Donald J. Boudreaux
George Mason University
Karol Boudreaux
George Mason University
Harold J. Bowen
Bowen, Hanes & Company, Inc.
John H. Boyd
University of Minnesota
Scott Bradford
Brigham Young University
Michael W. Brandl
The University of Texas
Charles Breeden
Marquette University
Wayne T. Brough
FreedomWorks
David Brown
University of Wisconsin
William W. Brown
California State University — Northridge
Phil Bryson
Brigham Young University
Richard C. K. Burdekin
Claremont McKenna College
Rob Burrus
University of North Carolina
James L. Butkiewicz
University of Delaware
Stuart M. Butler
Heritage Foundation
Colin D. Campbell
Dartmouth College
Noel D. Campbell
North Georgia College and State University
Anne C. Canfield
Canfield & Associates
Oral Capps Jr.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
William J. Carney
Emory University
John B. Chilton
American University of Sharjah
Kenneth W. Chilton
Washington University
John S. Chipman
University of Minnesota
Barry R. Chiswick
University of Illinois
J. R. Clark
University of Tennessee
Craig M. Clausen
NPRG, Inc.
R. Morris Coats
Nicholls State University
Joe Cobb
Dana Point, California
Howard Cochran Jr.
Belmont University
John P. Cochran
Metropolitan State College of Denver
Boyd D. Collier
Tarleton State University
William B. Conerly
Conerly Whelan Inc.
Lee Coppock
University of Virginia
Jim F. Couch
University of Northern Alabama
Eleanor Craig
University of Delaware
Tom Crocker
University of Wyoming
Ward S. Curran
Trinity College
Stephen M. Daley
George Mason University
Jerry W. Dauterive
Loyola University of New Orleans
Otto Davis
Carnegie Mellon University
Ted Day
University of Texas
Arthur De Vany
University of California — Irvine
Clarence Deitsch
Ball State University
Thomas DeLeire
Michigan State University
Gregory J. Delemeester
Marietta College
Henry Demmert
Santa Clara University
Craig A. Depken II
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Loyola College in Maryland
James Dorn
Towson University
Floyd H. Duncan
Virginia Military Institute
William C. Dunkelberg
Temple University
Parnell Duverger
Broward Community College
James R. Edwards
Montana State University
Chris Edwards
Cato Institute
John Eggers
Towson University
Isaac Ehrlich
SUNY at Buffalo
Jeffrey A. Eisenach
CapAnalysis, LLC
Ward Elliot
Claremont McKenna College
Dennis F. Ellis
University of Michigan at Flint
Michael A. Ellis
Kent State University
Bert Ely
Ely & Company
Kenneth G. Elzinga
University of Virginia
Stephen J. Entin
Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation
Richard E. Ericson
East Carolina University
Paul Evans
Ohio State University
Frank Falero
California State University
Allen M. Featherstone
Kansas State University
Paul J. Feldstein
University of California — Irvine
Arthur A. Fleisher III
Metro State College of Denver
Harold Flint
Montclair State University
Sean Flynn
Vassar College
Fred Foldvary
Santa Clara University
William Ford
Middle Tennessee State University
Blair Fortner
The Senate Majority Fund (Missouri)
Micah Frankel
California State University
Gary L. French
Nathan Associates, Inc.
Milton Friedman
Hoover Institution
Kenneth C. Froewiss
NYU Stern School of Business
Gary M. Galles
Pepperdine University
B. Delworth Gardner
Brigham Young University
Dave Garthoff
University of Akron
Gerald Garvey
Claremont Graduate University
James F. Gatti
University of Vermont
David E. R. Gay
University or Arkansas
Gregory M. Gelles
University of Missouri
Adam Gifford
California State University — Northridge
Micha Gisser
University of New Mexico
Amy Jocelyn Glass
Texas A&M University
Richard F. Gleisner
St. Cloud State University
Charles J. Goetz
University of Virginia
Stephan F. Gohmann
University of Louisville
Rodolfo A. Gonzalez
San Jose State University
John C. Goodman
National Center for Policy Analysis
Richard L. Gordon
Pennsylvania State University
David B. Gordon
Clemson University
Scott F. Grannis
Western Asset Management
Bettina Bien Greaves
Foundation for Economic Education
William B. Green
Sam Houston State University
Ken Greene
Binghamton University
John G. Greenhut
Arizona State University
Daniel Gressel
Teleos Asset Management
Neal D. E. Griffin
ISI Group, Inc.
Earl L. Grinols III
Baylor University
Daniel M. Gropper
Auburn University
Edward Guay
Wintonbury Risk Management
Gerald A. Gunderson
Trinity College
Thomas Guthrie
Indiana University
James Gwartney
Florida State University
David Haddock
Northwestern University
Rik Hafer
Southern Illinois University
Dennis Halcoussis
California State University — Northridge
David Hammes
University of Hawaii
Stephen Happel
Arizona State University
Lowell Harris
Columbia University
James E. Hartley
Mount Holyoke College
Kevin Hassett
American Enterprise Institute
Joel W. Hay
University of Southern California
Thomas W. Hazlett
Manhattan Institute
Dale M. Heien
University of California — Davis
David R. Henderson
Hoover Institution
James W. Henderson
Baylor University
Robert Herren
North Dakota State University
Steve Hiebsch
OGE
Jack High
George Mason University
P. J. Hill
Wheaton College
Bradley K. Hobbs
Florida Gulf Coast University
Irving Hoch
University of Texas
Randall G. Holcombe
Florida State University
Fred Holden
Jefferson Co., CO Treasurers Office
Milton L. Holloway
Resource Economics, Inc.
Charley Hooper
Objective Insights, Inc.
Brian R. Horrigan
Loomis, Sayles & Co.
Steve Horwitz
St. Lawrence University
Lee Hoskins
Pacific Research Institute
James L. Huffman
Lewis & Clark Law School
Jeffrey Hummel
San Jose State University
E. Kingdon Hurlock
Calvert Investment Counsel
E. Bruce Hutchinson
University of Tennessee
Selahattin Imrohoroglu
University of Southern California
Jeffrey Ingram
The University of Louisiana-Monroe
F. Owen Irvine
Michigan State University
Steve Jackstadt
University of Alaska
Joseph M. Jadlow
Oklahoma State University
Austin Jaffe
Penn State University
Sherry Jarrell
Wake Forest University
Rod E. Jensen
Atlantic Portfolio Analytics & Mgt.
Dennis A. Johnson
University of South Dakota
Timothy Kane
Heritage Foundation
Steve Kaplan
University of Chicago
Alexander Katkov
Johnson & Wales University
Raymond J. Keating
Small Business Survival Committee
W. Thomas Kelly
Savers & Investors League
Isaac C. Kerridge
Baker Hughes Foundation
Mark L. Kersey
NPRG, Inc.
B. F. Kiker
University of South Carolina
Chris Kirby
University of Texas
Robin Klay
Hope College
Daniel B. Klein
Santa Clara University
Arnold Kling
George Mason University
David Klingaman
Ohio University
Roy F. Knapp
Consultech, Inc.
Charles Knoeber
North Carolina State University
Donald Knop
Transco
Craig R. Knotson
Southwestern Bell
Paul Koch
Olivet Nazarene University
Meir Kohn
Dartmouth College
James W. Kolari
Texas A&M University
Roger Kormendi
University of Michigan
Leslie Koska
Melvyn Krauss
Hoover Institution
Robert Krol
California State University — Northridge
Larry Kudlow
Kudlow & Co., LLC
Michael M. Kurth
McNeese State University
Richard La Near
Missouri Southern State University
David N. Laband
Auburn University
Arthur Laffer
Laffer Associates
William E. Laird
Florida State University
Deepak Lal
UCLA
Frank R. Lanou
Frank Lanou & Associates
Nicholas A. Lash
Loyola University Chicago
Robert A. Lawson
Capital University
Ed Lazear
Stanford University
Christopher Lee
St. Ambrose University
Dwight R. Lee
University of Georgia
Ken Lehn
University of Pittsburgh
Noreen Lephardt
Marquette University
Peter Lewin
University of Texas
Stan Liebowitz
University of Texas
Leonard Liggio
Institute for Humane Studies
Cotton M. Lindsay
Clemson University
Allan E. Lines
Ohio State University
Jody W. Lipford
Presbyterian College
Luis Locay
University of Miami
Dennis E. Logue
University of Oklahoma
Herbert I. London
New York University
Edward Lopez
San Jose State University
Donald L. Losman
National Defense University
James R. Lothian
Fordham University
John Lott
American Enterprise Institute
Lawrence Lovik
Troy State College
Robert E. Lucas Jr.
University of Chicago
Donald L. Luskin
Trend Macrolytics
Max Lyons
Employment Policy Foundation
David W. Maaske
Glenn MacDonald
Washington University
Doug MacKenzie
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Joseph P. Magaddino
Calfornia State University — Long Beach
Burton Malkiel
Princeton University
Cynthia S. Maloney
LMI
Yuri N. Maltsev
Carthage College
N. Gregory Mankiw
Harvard University
Henry G. Manne
George Mason University
Dick Marcus
University of Wisconsin
Michael L. Marlow
California Polytechnic State University
Deryl Martin
Tennessee Tech University
Craig Marxsen
University of Nebraska
John G. Matsusaka
University of Southern California
Merrill Matthews
Institute for Policy Innovation
Deirdre McCloskey
University of Chicago
Paul W. McCracken
University of Michigan
Myra J. McCrickard
Bellarmine College
Richard McKenzie
University of California — Irvine
Lawrence J. McQuillan
Pacific Research Institute
Tom Means
San Jose State University
David I. Meiselman
Virginia Tech
Lloyd J. Mercer
University of California — Santa Barbara
John Merrifield
University of Texas
Marc Miles
Heritage Foundation
James C. Miller III
Former Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Jeff Milyo
University of Missouri
James Mintert
Kansas State University
Mario J. Miranda
Ohio State University
Daniel J. Mitchell
Heritage Foundation
Ronald L. Moomaw
Oklahoma State University
Adrian Moore
Reason Foundation
Steve Moore
Free Enterprise Fund
John C. Moorhouse
Wake Forest University
Paul Morgan
Westmont College
Michael A. Morrisey
University of Alabama
Andrew P. Morriss
Case Western University
Robert Mundell
Columbia University
Michael Munger
Duke University
Dennis Muraoka
California State University — Channel Islands
Frank W. Musgrave
Ithaca College
David Mustard
University of Georgia
Bharat B. Nauriyal
Anthony Negbenebor
Gardner-Webb University
George R. Neumann
University of Iowa
James E. Newton
Franklin University
William Niskanen
Cato Institute
Thomas A. Noll
Seth Norton
Wheaton
Philip A. Nuetzel
SBC Operations, Inc.
Stephen J. O’Brien
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
William H. Oakland
Tulane University
Lee E. Ohanian
UCLA
David J. O‘Hara
Metropolitan State University
June O’Neill
Baruch College, CUNY
Lydia Ortega
San Jose State University
Bill Orzechowski
Orzechowski and Walker
Dale K. Osborne
University of Texas
F. Taylor Ostrander
H. Edwin Overcast
AGL Resources
Walton Padelford
Union University
Karen Palasek
John Locke Foundation
Richard A. Palfin
Legal Economic Evaluations
Gary Palmer
Alabama Policy Institute
E. C. Pasour Jr.
North Carolina State University
Gary M. Pecquet
Tulane University
Svetozar Pejovich
Texas A&M University
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago
Mark J. Perry
University of Michigan
Janet K. Phelps
R.W. Beck
David M. Pizzano
Feld Entertainment
Matthew P. Plezia
Long Beach, CA
Charles Plosser
University of Rochester
Charles R. Plott
California Institute of Technology
Jennifer L. Polhemus
Alex J. Pollock
American Enterprise Institute
Joe Pomykala
Towson University
Jeffrey Pontiff
Boston College
Robert W. Poole
Reason Foundation
Michael H. Posgrove
Barry Poulson
University of Colorado
Randall Pozdena
Edward C. Prescott
Arizona State University
Jason A. Presley
The WEFA Group
Jan S. Prybyla
Pennsylvania State University
Berry Pulliam
Frederick J. Rafield
Ashland University
Richard W. Rahn
Novecon Corporation
R. David Ranson
HC Wainwright & Co. Economics
John Rapp
University of Dayton
Eric Rasmusen
Indiana University
Richard Rawlins
Missouri Southern State University
Lawrence W. Reed
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Martin Regalia
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Spencer Reibman
Georgia State University
Joseph D. Reid Jr.
George Mason University
Ralph R. Reiland
Robert Morris University
Robert W. Reinke
University of South Dakota
George Reisman
Pepperdine University
Andy Rettenmaier
Texas A&M University
Alan Reynolds
Cato Institute
Anthony H. Riccardi
AHR Associates
Wesley Rickard
Christine P. Ries
Georgia Institute of Technology
Mario Rizzo
New York University
Nancy Roberts
Arizona State University
Robert J. Rossana
Wayne State University
Thomas Rotelli
Timothy Roth
University of Texas
Robert A. Rothenberg
Kohn Advisors
Simon Rottenberg
University of Massachusetts
Charles K. Rowley
George Mason University
D. J. Rubattom
Rubattom & Associates
Paul H. Rubin
Emory University
Fred B. Ruckdeschel
Bethesda, MD
Roy Ruffin
University of Houston
John Ruggiero
University of Dayton
Mark Rush
University of Florida
Andrew A. Samwick
Dartmouth College
Gary J. Santoni
Ball State University
Thomas R. Saving
Texas A&M University
Eric Schansenberg
David Schmidtz
University of Arizona
James Schrager
University of Chicago
Michael A. Schuyler
Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation
Anna J. Schwartz
National Bureau of Economic Research
G. William Schwert
University of Rochester
Robert Haney Scott
California State University — Chico
John J. Seater
North Carolina State University
Larry J. Sechrest
Sul Ross State University
Carlos Seiglie
Rutgers University
Barry J. Seldon
The University of Texas
George Selgin
University of Georgia
John Semmens
Phoenix College
Edwin A. Sexton
Virginia Military Institute
Sejal Shah
Sol S. Shalit
University of Wisconsin
Alan C. Shapiro
University of Southern California
Stephen Shmanske
California State University — East Bay
Mark Showalter
Brigham Young University
William F. Shughart II
The University of Mississippi
George P. Shultz
Hoover Institution
Charles Skipton
University of Tampa
Mark Skousen
Columbia University
W. Gene Smiley
Marquette University
Amy Smith
The Lindsey Group
Clifford W. Smith
University of Rochester
James F. Smith
University of North Carolina
Vernon Smith
George Mason University
Michael Smolens
Astrazeneca
Russell Sobel
West Virginia University
David L. Sollars
Washburn University
Douglas Southgate
Ohio State University
David E. Spencer
Bringham Young University
Frank Spreng
McKendree College
Beryl W. Sprinkel
B.W. Sprinkel Economists
Stan Spurlock
Mississippi State University
William Stanford
University of Illinois
Ben Stein
Pepperdine University
Craig Stephenson
Babson College
E. Frank Stephenson
Berry College
Alan Stockman
University of Rochester
Houston H. Stokes
University of Illinois
Courtenay C. Stone
Ball State University
Richard Sweeney
Georgetown University
Stuart Sweet
Capital Analysts Network
Thomas L. Tacker
University of Central Florida
Robert Tamura
Clemson University
Rebecca Thacker
Ohio University
Clifford F. Thies
Shenandoah University
Richard H. Timberlake
University of Georgia
Robert Tollison
Clemson University
Robert Topel
University of Chicago
Edward Tower
Duke University
Henry Townsend
NIPAZ
Leo Troy
Rutgers University
David G. Tuerck
Suffolk University
Gordon Tullock
George Mason University
Charlotte Twight
Boise State University
Kamal P. Upadhyaya
University of New Haven
Charles Upton
Kent State University
T. Norman Van Cott
Ball State University
Richard K. Vedder
Ohio University
Randal J. Verbrugge
Virginia Tech
Robert Vigil
Analysis Group Inc.
John Volpe
Trinity College
Richard E. Wagner
George Mason University
William B. Walstad
University of Nebraska
Stephen J.K. Walters
Loyola College
Jude Wanniski
Polyconomics
Thayer Watkins
San Diego State University
Carolyn L. Weaver
American Enterprise Institute
Marc Weidenmier
Claremont McKenna College
Michael Welker
Franciscan University of Steubenville
John T. Wenders
University of Idaho
Brian S. Wesbury
Claymore Securities
Robert Whaples
Wake Forest University
Lawrence White
University of Missouri
John Wicks
University of Montana
Michael Williams
University of Denver
Walter E. Williams
George Mason University
Doug Wills
University of Washington
Mike Wohlgenant
North Carolina State University
Gary Wolfram
Hillsdale College
Gene C. Wunder
Washburn University
Bruce Yandle
Mercatus Center
DeVon L. Yoho
Ball State University
Paul Zak
Claremont Graduate University
Mokhlis Zaki
Northern Michigan University
Arnold Zellner
University of Chicago
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