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CURRICULUM VITAE OF JEFFREY MIRON
February, 2017
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Director of Economic Studies and Senior Fellow
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001
(617) 495-4129 (office)
(781) 856-0086 (cell)
(617) 495-8570 (fax)
Education
Swarthmore College, B.A. in Economics, Magna Cum Laude, 1979.
M.I.T., Ph.D. in Economics, 1984.
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, 1979
Joshua P. Lippincott Fellowship for Graduate Study, 1979.
Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 1981.
Rackham Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1987
Olin Fellowship, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1988 – 1989.
Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, 1990 – 1992.
Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2006
Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2007
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Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2008
Alfred R. Lindesmith Award, Awarded by the Drug Policy Alliance for Drug
Policy Scholarship, 2009.
Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2010
Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2011
Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2016
Senior Class List of Favorite Teachers, Harvard College, 2017
Charles Koch Fellowship, 2013-present
Professional Activities
Visiting Honors Examiner in Economic Theory, Swarthmore College, 1986.
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Program in
Financial Markets and Monetary Economics, 1985 – 1989.
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Program in
Economic Fluctuations, 1988 – 1989.
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989 – present.
Committee Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Drug Use and
the Workplace, 1992 – 1993.
Associate Editor, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1992 – 1995.
Board of Academic Advisors, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, May,
1995 – 2009.
President, Bastiat Institute, April, 1999 – June, 2005.
Reviewer, National Academies of Sciences’ Report on Improving Research
Information and Data on Firearms, July, 2003.
Rogge Memorial Lecture, Wabash College, Why Thoughtful Conservatives
Should be Libertarians: The Pitfalls of Fixing Bad Government with More
Government, March 2005.
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Editorial Board, Cato Journal, February, 2009 – present.
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, May, 2009 – present.
Member, Marijuana Prohibition Study Commission, Rhode Island State Senate,
2009.
Founder and Editor, Cato Papers on Public Policy, June 2010 – June 2013.
First Annual Jeffrey Miron Lecture on Liberty, Libertarianism, from A to Z,
Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania, March 2011.
Guest Lecturer, Market-Based Management Seminar, MIT, 2011.
Voting Member, American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington,
MA, October, 2011 – present.
Member, Board of Trustees, American Institute for Economic Research, Great
Barrington, MA, October, 2012 – 2014.
Grants
Exxon Doctoral Research Grant, 1984
University of Michigan Faculty Fund Grant, 1985.
Rackham Faculty Grant, University of Michigan, 1985
Rackham Faculty Grant, University of Michigan, 1986
“Weather, Fecundity, and the Seasonality of Births,” National Institute for Child
Health and Development, with David Lam, 1986 –87.
University of Michigan Faculty Fund Grant, 1987
“The Seasonal Cycle and the Business Cycle,” National Science Foundation, with
Robert Barsky, 1987 – 1989.
“Influences on Fecundity and the Timing of Births,” National Institute for Child
Health and Development, with David Lam, 1988-1990.
“Interactions Between Seasonal Cycles and Business Cycles,” National Science
Foundation, with Robert Barsky and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason, 1989 – 1991.
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“Improving the Accessibility of the NBER's Historical Data,” National Science
Foundation, with Daniel Feenberg, 1992 – 1995.
“Do Prohibitions Raise Prices? Evidence from the Markets for Cocaine and
Heroin,” Earhart Foundation, 1999.
“The Cost of Enforcing Drug Prohibition,” Open Society Institute, 2000.
Positions Held
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, September, 1984 –
August, 1989.
Visiting Scholar, National Bureau of Economic Research, January, 1988 –
August, 1988.
Olin Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, September, 1988 –August,
1989.
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, September, 1989 –
June, 1990.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Boston University, September, 1989
– December, 1989.
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September, 1989 – May, 1990.
Professor of Economics, Boston University, September 1990 – June, 2005.
Visiting Scholar, Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Université des Sciences
Sociales, Toulouse France, June – December, 1997.
Chairman, Department of Economics, Boston University, September, 1992 –
August, 1998.
Visiting Professor of Economics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, September, 2000 – June, 2001.
Visiting Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University,
July, 2004 – June, 2007.
Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of
Economics, Harvard University, July, 2007 – present.
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Director of Economic Studies, Cato Institute, March, 2014 – present.
Publications: Papers in Refereed Journals
“Financial Panics, the Seasonality of the Nominal Interest Rate, and the Founding
of the Fed,” American Economic Review, 76(1), March 1986, 125-40.
“The Changing Behavior of the Term Structure of Interest Rates,” with N.
Gregory Mankiw, Quarterly Journal of Economics, CI(2), May 1986, 211-28.
“Seasonal Fluctuations and the Life Cycle-Permanent Income Model of
Consumption,” Journal of Political Economy, 94(6), December 1986, 1258-79.
“The Adjustment of Expectations to a Change in Regime: A Study of the
Founding
of the Federal Reserve,” with N. Gregory Mankiw and David N. Weil, American
Economic Review, 77(3), June 1987, 358-74.
“The Worldwide Change in the Behavior of Interest Rates and Prices after 1914,”
with Robert Barsky, N. Gregory Mankiw, and David N. Weil, European
Economic Review, 32(5), June 1988, 1123-46.
“Seasonality, Cost Shocks, and the Production Smoothing Model of Inventories,”
with Steve Zeldes, Econometrica, 56(4), July 1988, 877-908.
“The Seasonal Cycle and the Business Cycle,” with Robert Barsky, Journal of
Political Economy, 97(3), June 1989, 503-534.
“Seasonal Fluctuations and the Life Cycle -- Permanent Income Model of
Consumption: A Correction,” with William English and David Wilcox, Journal of
Political Economy, 97(4), August 1989, 988-991.
“Production, Inventories, and Sales: An Identity that Doesn't Add Up,” with Steve
Zeldes, Journal of Monetary Economics, 24(1), July 1989, 31-51.
“Reviving the Federal Statistical System: The View from Academia,” with
Christina Romer, American Economic Review, 80(2), May 1990, 329-32
“The Adjustment of Expectations to a Change in Regime: Reply,” with N.
Gregory Mankiw and David N. Weil, American Economic Review, 80(4),
September 1990, 977-979.
“A New Index of Industrial Production, 1884-1940,” with Christina Romer,
Journal of Economic History, 50, June 1990, 321-37.
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“Alcohol Consumption During Prohibition,” with Jeffrey Zwiebel, American
Economic Review, 81(2), May 1991, 242-247.
“The Role of Economic History in Economic Research: A Review Essay,”
Journal of Monetary Economics, 27(2), April 1991, 293-200.
“The Seasonal Cycle in United States Manufacturing,” with J. Joseph Beaulieu,
Economics Letters, 37(2), 1991, 115-118.
“The Seasonality of Births in Human Populations,” with David Lam, Social
Biology, 38(1-2), 1991, 51-78.
“Why Do Countries and Industries with Large Seasonal Cycles Also Have Large
Business Cycles,” with J. Joseph Beaulieu and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason,
Quarterly Journal of Economics, CVII (May 1992), 621-56.
“A Cross Country Comparison of Seasonal Cycles and Business Cycles,” with J.
Joseph Beaulieu, Economic Journal, 102 (July 1992), 772-788.
“Seasonal Unit Roots and Deterministic Seasonals in Aggregate U.S. Data,” with
J. Joseph Beaulieu, Journal of Econometrics, 55, March 1993, 305-328.
“Modeling Seasonality in Fecundability, Conceptions, and Births,” with David A.
Lam and Ann Riley, Demography, 31 (May 1994), 321-346.
“Empirical Methodology in Macroeconomics: Explaining the Success of Milton
Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-
1960,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 34(1) (August 1994), 17-25.
“The Founding of the Fed and the Behavior of Interest Rates: What Can be
Learned from Small Samples?,” with N. Gregory Mankiw and David N. Weil,
Journal of Monetary Economics, 34(3) (December 1994), 555-560.
“The Economic Case Against Drug Prohibition,” with Jeffrey Zwiebel Journal of
Economic Perspectives, 9(4), Fall 1995, 175-192.
“What Have Macroeconomists Learned About Business Cycles from the Study of
Seasonal Cycles,” with J. Joseph Beaulieu, Review of Economics and Statistics,
78, February 1996, 54-66.
“The Effects of Temperature on Human Fertility,” with David Lam, Demography,
33(3), August 1996, 291-305.
“Improving the Accessibility of the NBER's Historical Data,” with Daniel
Feenberg, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 15(3), July 1997, 293-99.
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“An Economic Analysis of Alcohol Prohibition,” Journal of Drug Issues, 28(3)
Summer 1998, 741-62.
“Violence and the U.S. Prohibitions of Drugs and Alcohol,” American Law and
Economics Review, Fall 1999, 1-2, 78-114.
“The Economics of Drug Prohibition and Drug Legalization,” Social Research,
Fall 2001, 68(3), 835-855.
“Prohibition and the Market for Illegal Drugs: An Overview of Recent History,”
with Suren Basov and Mireille Jacobson, World Economics, October-December
2001, 2(4), 133-158.
“Violence, Guns, and Drugs: A Cross-Country Analysis,” Journal of Law and
Economics, October 2001, XLIV(2, pt. 2), 615-634.
“Do Prohibitions Raise Prices? Evidence from the Markets for Cocaine and
Heroin,” Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2003, 85(3), 522-530.
“Alcohol Prohibition and Cirrhosis,” with Angela Dills, American Law and
Economics Review, 2004, 6, 285-318.
“The Effect of Alcohol Prohibition on Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from
Drunkenness Arrests,” with Angela Dills and Mireille Jacobson, Economics
Letters, 2005, 279-294.
“The Opium Wars, Opium Legalization, and Opium Consumption in China,” with
Chris Feige, Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15, 911-913.
“Does the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Save Lives,” with Elina Tetelbaum,
Economic Inquiry, 2009, 47(2), 317-336.
“Comment on Selgin, Lastrapes, and White’s ‘Has the Fed Been a Failure?,’”
Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 34(3), 631-636.
Publications: Books
Casebook for Use with N. Gregory Mankiw's Macroeconomics, Worth
Publishers, New York, 1992.
The Economics of Seasonal Cycles, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.
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Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition, Independent Institute,
Oakland, CA, 2004.
Libertarianism, from A to Z, Basic Books: New York, 2010.
This Time IS Different: Fiscal Imbalance Over Time, Cato Institute: Washington,
DC, 2016.
Publications: Papers in Edited Books
“The Seasonal Cycle in the United States Economy,” with Robert Barsky, in The
Economic Outlook for 1988: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on the
Economic Outlook, Ann Arbor: Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics,
1987.
“The Founding of the Fed, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Destabilization of the
Post-1914 Economy,” in A European Central Bank? Perspectives on Monetary
Unification after Ten Years of the EMS, Alberto Giovanni and Marcello de Cecco,
eds., Cambridge University Press, 1989.
“Has the Fed Made a Difference? A Comparison of Pre- and Post-1914
Conditions,” in Monetary Policy on the 75th Anniversary of the Federal Reserve
System, Michael T. Belongia, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.
“Temperature and the Seasonality of Births,” with David Lam, in Temperature
and Environmental Effects on the Testis, Adrian Zorgniotti, ed., Plenum Press,
1991.
“Should the Fed Smooth Interest Rates? The Case of Seasonal Monetary Policy,”
with N. Gregory Mankiw, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series, Allan H.
Meltzer and Charles I. Plosser, eds., 34, Spring 1991, 41-70.
“Comment on `Pitfalls and Opportunities: What Macroeconomists Should Know
About Unit Roots' by John Y. Campbell and Pierre Perron,” NBER Macro
Annual, Olivier J. Blanchard and Stanley Fischer, eds., 1991, 211-217.
“Drug Legalization and the Consumption of Drugs: An Economist's Perspective,”
in Searching for Alternatives: Drug-Control Policy in the United States, Melvyn
B. Krauss and Edward P. Lazear, eds., Stanford, California: Hoover Institution
Press, 1991, 68-76.
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“Comment on `Economists and Drug Policy' by William J. Niskanen,” Carnegie-
Rochester Conference Series, Allan H. Meltzer and Charles I. Plosser, eds., 36,
July 1992, 249-59.
“The Economics of Seasonal Cycles,” in Advances in Econometrics: The Sixth
World Congress of the Econometric Society, Vol. I, Christopher Sims, ed.,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 213-251.
“Global Patterns of Seasonal Variation in Human Fertility,” with David A. Lam,
in Human Reproductive Ecology: Interactions of Environment, Fertility, and
Behavior, Kenneth L. Campbell and James W. Wood, eds., New York: The New
York Academy of Sciences, 1994, 9-28.
“Historical Perspectives on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism,” with
Christina D. Romer and David N. Weil, in Monetary Policy, N. Gregory Mankiw,
ed., Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994, 263-300.
“Why Does Inflation Differ Across Countries?,” with Marta Campillo, in
Monetary Policy and Low Inflation, Christina D. Romer and David Romer, eds.,
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997.
“The Genesis and Evolution of Social Security,” with David N. Weil, in The
Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the
Twentieth Century, Michael Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene White, eds.,
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
“Liberal Versus Libertarian Views on Drug Legalization,” in The New
Prohibition: Voices of Dissent Challenge the Drug War, Sheriff Bill Masters, ed.,
Accurate Press, 2004.
“The Economics of Illicit Drugs: Harm from Prohibition versus Harm from
Drugs,” in Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life,Death, and Misadventure,
Simon Bowmaker, ed., Edward Elgar, 2004.
“The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition,” in Pot Politics:
Marijuana and the Costs of Prohibition, Mitch Earleywine, ed., Oxford
University Press, Inc., 2006.
“Legalizing Illicit Drugs: A Problem Paper Prepared for the Copenhagen
Consensus 2008” Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems: Costs and Benefits,
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
“Comment on ‘Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beat,? The Effect of Tax changes on
Government Spending,’ by Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer,” Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2009, 205-211.
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“Comment on ‘Should Alcohol Taxes Be Raised?,’ by Ian W.H. Parry,”
Regulation, 32(3), Fall 2009, 13-14.
“A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Legalizing Marijuana,” in The Pot Book: A Complete
Guide to Cannabis, Julie Holland, ed., Inner Traditions, 2010.
“What Do Economists Know About Crime?,” with Angela Dills and Garrett
Summers, in The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin American,
Sebastian Edwards, Rafael Di Tella, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, eds., Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2010.
“Government Policy Toward Illegal Drugs: An Economist’s Perspective,” in
“Rethinking the ‘War on Drugs’ Through the US-Mexico Prism,” Ernesto Zedillo
and Haynie Wheeler, eds., Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 2012.
“Curtailing Subsidies for Health Insurance,” in Reviving Economic Growth, Brink
Lindsey, ed., Cato Institute, 2015.
“Does Consumer Irrationality Justify the War on Drugs?,” in Self-Control or
State Control? You Decide, Tom G. Palmer, ed., Jameson Books, 2016.
Publications: Editorials
“A Handout to Home Buyers,” Boston Business Journal, March 30, 1992.
“Don't Raise Taxes; Cut Benefits,” Boston Business Journal, May 18, 1992.
“Get the State Out of Gambling,” Boston Business Journal, June 15, 1992.
“No Reason for State Universities,” Boston Business Journal, July 13, 1992.
“Throw Away the Recylcing Bill,” Boston Business Journal, August 17, 1992.
“Let the Sun Set on the Blue Laws,” Boston Business Journal, September 14,
1992.
“Leave the Cigarette Tax Alone,” Boston Business Journal, October 10, 1992.
“Taking a Hard Look at Racial Bias,” Boston Business Journal, November 16,
1992.
“Graduated Tax Idea Falls Flat,” Boston Business Journal, December 12, 1992.
“Ax the Corporate Income Tax,” Boston Business Journal, January 11, 1993.
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“It's Time to Consider Vouchers,” Boston Business Journal, February 2, 1993.
“Kill the Anti-Privatization Bill,” Boston Business Journal, March 3, 1993.
“Bay State Should Lead by Legalizing Marijuana,” Boston Business Journal,
April 16, 1993.
“Gun Buyback a Big Sellout,” Boston Business Journal, May 14, 1993.
“Vouchers are Key to Ed Reform,” Boston Herald, June 10, 1993.
“Weld's Workfare Plan Misses the Mark,” Boston Herald, July 8, 1993.
“Disclosure Compromise is a Loser,” Boston Business Journal, July 16, 1993.
“Megaplex Financing Needs Revision,” Boston Business Journal, August 20,
1993.
“Academic Freedom Should be Qualified,” Boston Herald, January 30, 1994
(with Anita Tien).
“It's Time for Rent Control to Go,” Boston Herald, May 23, 1994.
“Wellesley's Problem Prof,” Boston Herald, June 27, 1994.
“Weld Ups Ante on Higher Ed,” Boston Herald, July 18, 1994.
“Time to Go Beyond Casinos,” Boston Herald, August 22, 1994.
“Ballot Questions Can Hit Economy,” Boston Herald, September 19, 1994.
“Grad Tax Will `Grow' on Middle Class,” Boston Herald, October 17, 1994.
“Rent Control: End it the Right Way,” Boston Herald, November 28, 1994.
“State Tuition Plan not for the Savy,” Boston Herald, December 19, 1995.
“Should We Zero Out Welfare?,” Boston Herald, January 30, 1995.
“Tobacco Lawsuit is Ill-Advised,” Boston Herald, March 20, 1995.
“The Case for Making Drugs Legal,” Boston Globe, June 21, 1998.
“The Economic Case for Drugs,” The London Observer, August 15, 1999.
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“Reply to ‘Marijuana: The Deceptive Drug,’” Massachusetts News, February,
2000.
“Save Social Security? No, Ax It,” Boston Globe, October 22, 2000.
“Campaign Finance Reform: Understanding the Real Issues,” Liberty Fund
Contributor’s Forum, www.libertyfund.org, January, 2001.
“Traffic Lessons,” Orange County Register, Bergen County Record, San Diego
Union-Tribune (various titles), March 25, 2001.
“Can Privatization Improve the Financial Health of the Social Security System?,”
with Kevin M. Murphy, Liberty Fund Contributor’s Forum, www.libertyfund.org,
April, 2001.
“The Case Against Public Colleges and Universities,” Milken Institute Review,
Second Quarter 2001, 81-87.
“Mandatory Savings Programs” Liberty Fund Contributor’s Forum,
www.libertyfund.org, July, 2001.
“Tenure,” Liberty Fund Contributor’s Forum, www.libertyfund.org, September,
2001.
“Bildungsgutscheine als Mittel zur Unverteilung: Weshalb es eigentlich kiene
staatlichen Universitaten brauchte,” (The Case for Eliminating Government
Universities) Neue Zurcher Zeitung, June 30, 2002.
“Smart Sentencing Initiative a Step Forward on Pot Policy,” Columbia Daily
Tribune (Missouri), March 23, 2003.
“Making Sense of Bush’s Proposal for Reform,” Chief Executive, March, 2005.
“No State Money for Stem Cells,” Boston Globe, March 26, 2005.
“What Do Central Banks Do?,” Chief Executive, April, 2005.
“To Avoid More Enrons: Legalize Fraud,” TCSDaily, May 30, 2006,
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=053006E
“Spending Cuts Even Democrats Can Support,” TCSDaily, June 13, 2006,
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=061306B
“A Little Unhappiness Goes a Long Way,” TCSDaily, June 30, 2006,
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=063006B
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“The Case for Small Government,” blog, March –August 2006,
http://jeffreyalanmiron.typepad.com
“What Europe Can Learn from U.S. Policies on Drinking and Driving,”
September 5, 2007, http://www.voxeu.org.
“Economic Surplus,” Harvard Crimson, June 5, 2008.
“Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer,” cnn.com,
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/29/miron.bailout/index.html, September
29, 2008.
“Why this bailout is as bad as the last one,” cnn.com,
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/14/miron.banks/index.html, October 14,
2008.
“The End of Libertarianism and Other Adventures in Financial Policy Fantasy,”
reason.com, http://www.reason.com/news/show/129580.html, October 21, 2008.
“Cut taxes; don’t raise spending,” cnn.com
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/29/miron.stimulus/index.html,
December 30, 2008.
“Libertarian Ideas to Stimulate Economy,” cnn.com,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/05/miron.libertarian.stimulus/index.html
February 5, 2009.
“To Improve the Economy, Eliminate the Corporate Income Tax,”
www.reason.com, http://www.reason.com/news/show/131556.html, February 6,
2009.
“The Receivership Option,” www. nytimes.com,
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/geithners-2-trillion-bailout/,
February 11, 2009.
“Bailing Out Homeowners is a Mistake,” cnn.com,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/02/miron.housing.bailout/index.html
March 2, 2009.
“Legalize Drugs to Stop the Violence,” cnn.com,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/24/miron.legalization.drugs/index.html
March 24, 2009.
“The Dangers of the Drinking Age,” forbes.com (with Elina Tetelbaum),
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/15/lowering-legal-drinking-age-opinions-
contributors-regulation.html, April 15, 2008.
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“Belts Yet to Tighten,” Boston Herald, May 6, 2009.
“What Would Happen if Marijuana Were Decriminalized? A Freakonomics
Quorom,” nytimes.com, http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/pot-
quorum/, May 22, 2009.
“Health Costs Out of Control,” cnn.com,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/15/miron.health.costs/index.html,
June 15, 2009.
“No Exit for Government,” nytimes.com,
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/goldmans-gain-americas-
risk/, July 14, 2009.
“Cash for Clunkers is a Clunker,” cnn.com,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/03/miron.clunkers/index.html,
August 3, 2009.
“Fnancial Market Reform: Why new regulations must avoid moral hazards,”
http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/27/financial-market-reform,
October 27, 2009.
“Public option: Treatment worse than the disease,”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/10/29/miron.health.care/index.html,
October 30, 2009.
“Re-Legalize All Drugs,” www.crackonomics.com, November, 2009.
“Obamanomics,” http://alisterpaine.com, November 23, 2009.
“Should Governments Subsidize Health Insurance,”
http://alisterpaine.info/2009/12/14/obamacare/, December 14, 2009
“A Real Stimulus,” National Review Online,
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Zjk3NDkwNzJmODE4OWEwNzAwZjc5M
WZjZmM3MWM5MDk=, January 13, 2010.
“Bailing Out The Banks Was Wrong, But New Tax Won't Make It Right,”
Investor’s Business Daily Online,
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=518158,
January 14, 2010.
“More airport security won’t do much to stop terrorists. Leaving the Middle East
would.”Christian Science Monitor,
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0128/More-airport-
security-won-t-do-much-to-stop-terrorists.-Leaving-the-Middle-East-would,
January 28, 2010.
“Slash Expenditure to Balance the Budget,” dailycaller.com,
http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/18/slash-expenditure-to-balance-the-budget/,
February 18, 2010.
“Let Greece Default,” forbes.com,
http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/29/greece-bailout-default-opinions-contributors-
jeffrey-a-miron.html, April 29, 2010.
“Let the Euro Die,” forbes.com,
http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/05/07/let-the-euro-die/, May 7, 2010.
“Avoiding Fiscal Meltdown,” forbes.com,
http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/05/12/avoiding-fiscal-meltdown/
May 12, 2010.
“Unsustainable Retirement Benefits,” nytimes.com,
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/the-twilight-of-the-welfare-
state/?hp, May 12, 2010.
“The Realities Behind the Immigration Debate,” dailycaller.com,
http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/18/the-realities-behind-the-immigration-debate/,
May 18, 2010.
“A Double-Dip Warning Sign?,” forbes.com,
http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/05/20/a-double-dip-warning-sign/,
May 20, 2010.
“The Gulf Oil Spill: Should Execs be Personally Liable?,”
http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/05/25/the-gulf-spill-should-execs-be-
personally-liable/,
May 25, 2010.
“A Gulf Spill Reality Check,” forbes.com,
http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/06/02/calm-reactions-to-the-gulf-spill/,
June 2, 2010.
“The Tea Party and the Drug War,” nationalreview.com,
http://article.nationalreview.com/435622/the-tea-party-and-the-drug-war/jeffrey-
a-miron, June 7, 2010.
“Paying Back America’s Debt,” alisterpaine.info,
http://alisterpaine.info/2010/06/07/paying-back-americas-debt/, June 7, 2010.
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“The Decline of Newspapers Shows Capitalism is Working,” forbes.com
http://blogs.forbes.com/beltway/2010/06/07/the-decline-of-newspapers-shows-
capitalism-is-working, June 7, 2010.
“Crossing the Line,” nytimes.com,
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/can-the-u-s-punish-bps-
shareholders/, June 11, 2010.
“Will Europe’s Debt Crisis Hurt the U.S.?,” forbes.com,
http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/06/15/will-europes-debt-crisis-hurt-the-u-
s/, June 16, 2010.
“The Gulf Spill and Compensation for Disaster Victims,” psychologytoday.com,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/libertarianism-z, June 22, 2010.
“The U.K. Austerity Plan is a 77% Solution,” forbes.com,
http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/06/22/the-u-k-austerity-plan-is-a-77-
solution/, June 22, 2010.
“What Matters are Consequences, Not Context,” www.cato-unbound.org,
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/06/23/jeffrey-miron/what-matters-are-
consequences- not-context/, June 23, 2010.
“Less Policy Means More Jobs,” nytimes.com,
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/can-obama-create-more-
jobs- soon/#cowen, June 24, 2010.
“The U.S. versus the G-20 on Spending,” psychlogytoday.com,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/libertarianism-z/201006/the-us-versus-
the-g-20-spending, June 28, 2010.
“States Can Easily Balance Their Budgets,” forbes.com
http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/07/01/the-truth-states-can-easily-balance-
their-budgets/, July 1, 2010.
“Gun Control Advocates Should Applaud the Supreme Court,”
psychologytoday.com, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/libertarianism-
z/201007/gun-control-advocates-should-applaud-the-supreme-court,
July 6, 2010.
“Why Limits on Banker Bonuses Are Meaningless,” forbes.com,
http://blogs.forbes.com/streettalk/2010/07/07/why-limits-on-banker-bonuses-are-
meaningless/, July 7, 2010.
“Should the U.S. Restrict Immigration?,” psychologytoday.com,
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/libertarianism-z/201007/should-the-us-
restrict-immigration, July 12, 2010.
“It’s time to Shift Spending to States,” politico.com,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39802.html, July 16, 2010.
“Government Needs to Divorce the Marriage Business,” aolnews.com,
http://goo.gl/Dk5zr, August 13, 2010.
“Why the Bush Tax Cuts Worked,” nytimes.com,
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/09/08/mixing-economics-with-
politics, September 8, 2010.
“Drugs and Conservatives Should Go Together,” latimes.com,
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-miron-legalize-drugs-
20100929,0,5651087.story, September 29, 2010.
“Making an Economic Case for Legalizing Drugs,” www.philly.com,
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20101003_Making_an_economic_case_f
or_legalizing_drugs.html, Oct. 3, 2010.
“Pot Can’t Solve California’s Problems (But It Should Still Be Legal),”
forbes.com, http://goo.gl/rihzV, October 14, 2010.
“Don’t Buy the Hype on Pot Legalization,” cnn.com,
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/19/miron.prop.19/, October 19, 2010.
“Why Did California Vote Down Legal Pot?,” cnn.com,
http://jeffreymiron.com/2010/11/a-post-mortem-on-proposition-19/,
November 3, 2010.
“An Irish Default May Have Benefits,” nytimes.com,
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/11/17/should-ireland-accept-a-
bank-bailout, November 18, 2010.
“Anti-Libertarian Presidents,” huffingtonpost.com, http://goo.gl/r4OrS, Nov 18,
2010.
“Harsh Gun Control Will Seem Like War on Drugs,” bloomberg.com,
http://tiny.cc/4tdyg, January 14, 2011.
“Limiting Free Speech Isn’t the Answer,” cnn.com,
http://tinyurl.com/4lw4gh2, January 15, 2011.
“More than Just Greed,” nytimes.com, http://goo.gl/Ynaty, January 30, 2011.
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“Unions,” thefreemanonline.org,
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/guest-blogging-unions/,
March 2, 2011.
“Should Governments Subsidize Health Insurance,” huffingtonpost.com,
http://goo.gl/8UGKd, March 25, 2011.
“Cutting Expenditure is a Good Thing,” realclearmarkets.com,
http://goo.gl/4f3HU, April 26, 2011.
“Principles for Lasting Federal Budget Reforms,” www.philly.com,
http://goo.gl/ZPpGD, July 22, 2011.
“A Pox on Both Parties,” cnn.com, http://goo.gl/xXNvX, July 28, 2011.
“Why Warren Buffett is Wrong,” cnn.com, http://goo.gl/Rzezw, August 15, 2011.
“Just a Theory,” thedaily.com, http://goo.gl/QGt6l, August 30, 2011.
“Soaking the Rich is Not Fair,” huffingtonpost.com, http://goo.gl/8ofnx,
September 2, 2011.
“The Speech Obama Should Have Given,” townhall.com, http://goo.gl/vZU0n,
September 10, 2011.
“Greece Should Default and Abandon the Euro,” bbc.co.uk, http://goo.gl/zlEYX,
October 25, 2011.
“Can Inflation Kickstart the Economy,” npr.org, http://goo.gl/Nwii4, November
21, 2011.
“Who’s to Blame for Washington Gridlock?”, cnn.com, http://goo.gl/T0io8,
December 23, 2011.
“An Economic Defense of Insider Trading,” www.atlassociety.org,
http://goo.gl/EYfjx, February 15, 2012.
“A Little Humility Would Help,” www.nytimes.com, http://goo.gl/lNSvw, April
2, 2012.
“The Fed versus the Gold Standard,” www.huffingtonpost.com,
http://goo.gl/9Cxc9, April 18, 2012.
“Making the Case for Marijuana Legalization,” cnbc.com, http://goo.gl/nylUV,
April 20, 2012.
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“Prosecute Wal-Mart, but Get Rid of Anti-Bribery Law,” cnn.com,
http://goo.gl/IKBja, April 26, 2012.
“How to Get an Economy Growing Fast,” cnn.com, http://goo.gl/lxNPy, March
26, 2012.
“Eliminate Impediments to Growth,” nytimes.com, http://goo.gl/4J2xD, August
17, 2012.
“Fixing Medicare Requires Seniors to Pay Quite a Bit More,” latimes.com,
http://goo.gl/SVKxT, September 4, 2012.
“Romney’s Economic Plan Has the Edge,” cnn.com, http://goo.gl/dS034, October
18, 2012.
“The (Imperfect) Case for Question 3,” www.huffingtonpost.com,
http://goo.gl/wd1XC, November 1, 2012.
“The Sequester is Good for the Economy,” dailycaller.com, http://goo.gl/F51K2,
March 1, 2013.
“Do the NSA's Phone and Internet Monitoring Programs Make Sense?,”
huffingtonpost.com, http://huff.to/1bAtCqB, June 13, 2013.
“The Tea Party’s Cynical Opposition to Immigration Reform,”
Huffingtonpost.com, http://huff.to/13baVG6, July 22, 2013.
“Do We Need Climate Change Guidelines?,” Orange County Register,
http://bit.ly/13vu7O5, July 29, 2013.
“Marijuana, Sex, and Amsterdam,” Huffington Post, http://huff.to/18GxGnD,
September 5, 2013.
“Uruguay and Marijuana Legalization,” Peruvian Times, http://bit.ly/1ddBUuj,
January 7, 2014.
“Is the War on Drugs Over?,” Harvard Crimson, http://bit.ly/1mRKEWN,
January 27, 2014.
“Are recreational pot's low tax numbers worrisome? No,” Denver Post,
http://bit.ly/1f7b8jx, March 23, 2014.
“A Case for the Libertarian,” Washington Times, http://bit.ly/1wDMG1J, July 18,
2014.
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“Regulation Depresses the Market,” New York Times, http://nyti.ms/1kdtsAd, July
23, 2014.
“Why All Drugs Should be Legal,” Weekly Wonk, http://bit.ly/1sYEGuX, July 23,
2014.
“Why Congress Should Legalize Pot,” cnn.com, http://cnn.it/11ttQ4v, Nov 19,
2014.
“The Tax Code Should Not Redistribute Wealth,” nytimes.com, http://nyti.ms/1AssvdX,
February 4, 2015.
“The Case to Reclassify Grass,” newsweek.com, http://bit.ly/1xcRUCr, March 11, 2015.
“Good Intentions Don’t Always Lead to Good Results,” nytimes.com, http://nyti.ms/1J9QZLY,
May 12, 2015.
“El Chapo Shows the Folly of the War on Drugs,” time.com, http://bit.ly/1QoBcgA, January 21,
2016.
“Why Trump’s Economic Policy Would be Disastrous,” cnn.com, http://cnn.it/2baiTyo, August
8, 2016.
“Ach, Sie glauben an Verbote? Warum alle Drogen legal sein sollten.,” http://bit.ly/2e6YpcH,
Schweitzer Monat, October, 2016.
“Experience Shows Little Impact on Safety,” bostonherald.com, http://bit.ly/2enSO2b, October
24, 2016.
“Seven Common Myths About Legal Marijuana,” newsweek.com, http://bit.ly/2fOcLeV,
November 12, 2016.
“Why Protecting Steel Workers from China’s Imports Doesn’t Help America,” cnn.com,
http://cnn.it/2gVEIEQ, November 28, 2016.
Publications: Other
“The Seasonal Cycle and the Business Cycle,” NBER Reporter, Spring, 1989.
“An Economic Analysis of Drug Prohibition,” Espana Economica, April 1992,
#1063, 62-72.
“Seasonality and Monetary Policy,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money
and Finance, Peter Newman, Murray Milgate, and John Eatwell, eds., London:
The Macmillan Press, 1992.
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Under the Influence? Drugs and the American Work Force, Jacques Normand,
Richard O. Lempert, and Charles P. O'Brien, eds., Washington, D.C.: National
Academy Press, 1994 (one of eighteen authors).
The Economics of Rent Control, Report to Massachusetts Homeowners Coalition,
1994.
“The Economics of Rent Control,” Testimony before the Local Affairs
Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, November 28, 1994.
“The Economic Effects of Drug Prohibition,” Economic Times, 4(1), Spring
1995, 8-14.
“Seasonal Cycles,” in Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia, David
Glasner, ed., Washington, D.C.: Garland Publishing, 1997, 612.
“Seasonal Fluctuations and Financial Crises,” in Business Cycles and
Depressions: An Encyclopedia, David Glasner, ed., Washington, D.C.: Garland
Publishing, 1997, 613-615.
“Drug Prohibition,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law,
Peter Newman, ed., London: The Macmillan Press, 1998, 648-652.
“Alcohol Prohibition,” in Online Encyclopedia of Economic and Business
History, http://ww.eh.net/encyclopedia, 2001.
Large-Format Retailing and Local Economic Activity, with Ed Glaeser, Report to
the International Mass Retail Association, 2001.
“Review of A Primer on America’s Schools, Terry Moe, ed., Ideas on Liberty,
July 2002, 52(7), 57-59.
“The Cross-Country Relation Between Violence, Guns, and Drugs,” in Guns in
American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law,,
Gregg Carter, ed., Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO Press, 2002, 176-179.
“Review of Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, & Places, by
Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter,” The Independent Review, 7(2), Fall 2002,
297-300.
“The Effect of Marijuana Decriminalization on the Budgets of Massachusetts
Governments, With a Discussion of Decriminalization’s Effect on Marijuana
Use,” Report to the Drug Policy Forum of Massachusetts, October, 2002.
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“The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Legalization in Massachusetts,”
Report to Change the Climate, August, 2003.
“A Critique of Estimates of the Economic Costs of Drug Abuse.” Report to the
Open Society Institute, August 2003.
“Review of Can Gun Control Work?, by James B. Jacobs,” The Freeman: Ideas
on Liberty, May 2004, 54(4), 43-44.
“Federal Marijuana Policy: A Preliminary Assessment,” Report to Taxpayers for
Common Sense, March 2005.
“Opening Pandora’s Box:: Alternative Illicit Trade Control. A Review of Moises
Naim’s Illicit,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, VII, (2,
Summer/Fall 2006), 155-159.
“The Effect of Marijuana Decriminalization on the Budgets of Massachusetts
Governments, With a Discussion of Decriminalization’s Effect on Marijuana Use
An Update of Miron (2002a),” Report for Committee for Sensible Marijuana
Policy, 2007.
“The Effect of the Minimum Legal Drinking Age on Traffic Fatalities in Different
Age Groups,” with Elina Tetelbaum, Report for Choose Responsibility, 2007.
“Affidavit of Jeffrey Miron” in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Richard
Cusick and Russell Stroup, March 30, 2008.
“Drugs and Violence,” Report for World Bank Project on Crime and Violence in
Central America, forthcoming, 2009.
“The Budgetary Implications of Drug Prohibition,” Report for the Criminal
Justice Policy Foundation and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, 2008.
“Bailout or Bankruptcy?,” Cato Journal, 29(1), 1-17, 2009.
“Did the Federal Drinking Age Save Lives?,” with Elina Tetelbaum, Regulation,
Spring 2009, 32(1), 10-15.
“Do We Need Deposit Insurance?,” The Freeman Online, 59(4), May, 2009.
“The Case Against the Fiscal Stimulus,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public
Policy, 33(2), Spring, 2010, 519-529.
“Should Governments Try to Reduce Sin?,” Harvard College Economics Review,
4(1), 2009, 4-5.
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“The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition,” with Katherine Waldock,
The Cato Institute, September, 2010.
“The Negative Consequences of Government Expenditure,” Mercatus Working
Paper No. 10-83, George Mason University, November 2010.
“Rethinking Redistribution,” National Affairs, 6(Winter), 2011, 70-85.
“Libertarianism, from A to Z,” blog, jeffreymiron.com.
“The Fiscal Health of U.S. States,” Mercatus Working Paper No. 11-33, George
Mason University, August 15, 2011.
“Medical Marijuana: A Status Report,” with Gladys Varela, Report for Harvard
Catalyst, September, 2011.
“Should U.S. Fiscal Policy Address Slow Growth or the Debt? A Nondilemma,”
Cato Institute Policy Analysis, December, 2012.
“Marijuana Policy in Colorado,” Cato Institute Working Paper, October, 2014.
“Fiscal Imbalance: A Primer,” Cato Institute Policy Analysis, December, 2015.
“Dose of Reality: The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations,” with Angela Dills
and Sietse Goffard, Cato Institute Policy Analysis, September, 2016.
Manuscripts
“A Comment on Donohue and Levitt’s (2006) Reply to Foote and Goetz (2005),”
with Angela Dills.
Consulting Positions
Mass Homeowners Coalition, 1994.
International Mass Retail Association, 2000-2001.
Shook, Hardy, and Bacon, LLP, 2001-2009.
Public Defenders Offices, Massachusetts, 2013 – present.
