Adrian Moore

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BIOGRAPHY

Adrian Moore is vice president of research at Reason Foundation, a non-profit think tank advancing free minds and free markets. Moore oversees all of Reason’s policy research and conducts his own research on a wide range of policy issues.

Mr. Moore is co-author of Mobility First: A New Vision for Transportation in a Globally Competitive Twenty-first Century, published in 2009, and Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit, published in 1997, which was runner up for the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award. And he is author of dozens of policy studies. His work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Orange County Register, The Independent Review, Economic Affairs, Public Policy and Management, Consumer Affairs, and numerous other publications. He also makes many media appearances to discuss current issue and his research. Recent appearances include Fox News, CNNfN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio.

Prior to joining Reason, Moore served 10 years in the Army on active duty and reserves. As an noncommissioned officer he was accepted to Officers Candidate School and commissioned as an Infantry officer. He served in posts in the United States and Germany and left the military as a Captain after commanding a Heavy Material Supply company.

Mr. Moore earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine. He holds a Master's in Economics from the University of California, Irvine and a Master's in History from California State University, Chico.

COMMENTARIES

Furloughed State Workers and Unemployment Benefits

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 03/24/09

Over at FlashReport Bill Leonard, a member of California's Board of Equalization, raises an interesting issue: Two hundred thousand plus state employees may be eligible for Unemployment Insurance benefits. This is an issue that has Employment Development Department (EDD) lawyers in a tizzy. Clearly, the Governor-ordered furloughs are a reduction in pay, but the employees are being sent home on furlough days so their rate of pay stays... read more »

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Don't Destroy Capitalism

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 03/23/09

I recently blogged an interview with Gary Becker on the economy, now here is more from Becker (free registration required to read). Capitalism has been wounded by the global recession, which unfortunately will get worse before it gets better. As governments continue to determine how many restrictions to place on markets, especially financial markets, the destruction of wealth from the recession should be placed in the... read more »

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$10 Trillion and Counting

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 03/22/09

On Tuesday night PBS Frontline is going to examine the incredibly upside-down state of federal government spending. More info here. You should watch it and also watch the Reason.tv coverage of this issue. From the email promo for the Frontline special: Among the unpleasant truths Americans are facing are trillion dollar plus current budget deficits and a total national debt which serves as the titlefor Tuesday's FRONTLINE, "Ten Trillion... read more »

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Now is No Time to Give Up on Markets

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 03/22/09

So runs the title of this WSJ interview with Nobel prize winning economist Gary Becker. "What can we do that would be beneficial? [One thing] is lower corporate taxes and businesses taxes and maybe taxes in general. Particularly, you want to lower the tax on capital so you raise the after-tax return to investing and get more investing going on." . . . . That suggests that there is a risk to the U.S. system with more people relying on... read more »

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Will Nothing Stop the Growth in CA State Workers?

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 03/22/09

From 2006 to 2008 the state of California added about 40,000 new employees, or one for every 1000 citizens--a stunning rate of growth in its own right, but downright astonishing when you consider the state budget crises we suffered during those years. See this Reason Foundation study for more gory details on state spending and hiring trends in recent years--it ain't pretty. Since former Gov. George Deukmejian's final budget in Fiscal Year... read more »

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Our rush to be French

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 02/15/09

A Newsweek cover story "We Are All Socialists Now: In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French."A decade ago U.S. government spending was 34.3 percent of GDP, compared with 48.2 percent in the euro zone--a roughly 14-point gap, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2010 U.S. spending is expected to be 39.9 percent of GDP,... read more »

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An Inconvenient Debt

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 02/11/09

Glenn Beck provides a simple and shocking look at the out of control debt/printing of money/devaluing the currency that is going on.Hat tip for Thinkmarkets. read more »

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It's the debt, stupid!

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 02/08/09

As a "stimulus" deal appears to be drawing closer, it is way past time Congress realized "a crisis of excess debt can be solved by creating more debt". Or as the author of the new book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World puts it in the LA Times, Keynes Can't Help Us Now. read more »

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Obama's real tax plan

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 02/06/09

No really that funny. read more »

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Is the "Stimulus" going down?

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 02/06/09

First a lot of interesting new polling shows support for the "stimulus" package is plummeting.Meanwhile, more of the nonsense in the "stimulus" package is exposed. read more »