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

Next Steps- fresh advice on the financial crisis

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 01/29/09

National Review online had this interesting collection of advice from a variety of government finance experts, including my colleague Sam Staley. First and foremost, regulators need to let the market sort out the fundamentals. As the economy becomes even more services-based, the kind of painful market discipline we see today will become more frequent although less destabilizing as the industry recalibrates its approach to assessing and... read more »

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Agricultural Subsidies: Corporate Welfare for Farmers

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 01/28/09

Check out this 8 minute video program from Reason.tv. "The government is bailing out the banks...but who's going to bail out the government?" asks Texas cotton farmer Ken Gallaway, a vocal critic of agricultural subsidies that cost U.S. taxpayers and consumers billions of dollars a year in direct payments and higher prices for farm goods.Agricultural subsidies were put in place in the 1930s during the Great Depression, when 25 percent of... read more »

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Governor and attorney general's call to end prison receivership and prison spending spree

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 01/28/09

So Arnie and Jerry Brown have called for "a federal judge today to end court oversight of healthcare in California prisons and return the inmate medical system to the state's control."The federal judge does seem a bit amok at times, and he clearly does not give a damn about the state's budget crisis. But, he did not show up one day on a whim. California's leader had to manage the system incredibly badly and lose a number of court cases to... read more »

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Timidity in the Face of Fiscal Recklessness Is No Vice

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 01/28/09

My colleague Jacob writes:Even as President Obama promises that the federal government will spend the $1 trillion or so contemplated in the stimulus legislation in a utterly open, totally transparent, and absolutely accountable way, he demands that members of Congress vote for the 647-page monstrosity before they can possibly have time to read and digest it. "We don't have a moment to spare," he says, eliciting praise from Honeywell... read more »

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Hype clouds our real air pollution picture

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 01/20/09

Check this terriffic column from Lois Henry in the Bakersfield Californian. I have no idea how to say this, so I'm just going to say it: Claims about air pollution's devastating effects on public health are, um, hooey. Or at least largely hooey. You have no idea how it pains me to say that having many times, and publicly so, taken officials and politicians to task for not doing more to clean our "filthy air." She really goes on to break down... read more »

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SoCal Fire's lessons for the Bailout

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 01/19/09

I found interesting this consideration of a lesson for the bailout that we can take from the disastrous October fires in Southern CA. read more »

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Free health care tanks

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 01/19/09

As Congress debates expanding the SCHIP program of children's health insurance, and California prepares to debate a state children's health insurance program, just for once, could we actually consider what has happened to other attempts?The latest is the collapse of a program in Hawaii. The opener to the NY Post's article reads:HAWAII just had a vivid les son in health-care eco nomics, learning that if you offer people insurance for free -... read more »

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States spend and spend, banking on sugar daddy

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 01/13/09

Front page of today's USA Today, an article that really made my stomach churn. Seems most states are responding to the recession and falling revenues by, yes, continuing to spend at higher levels. Ya see, sugar daddy Congress is gonna take care of em. . . .[M]any states continue to spend money at boom-time rates even though revenue is sinking.The mismatch between spending and revenue has left states facing projected shortfalls of up... read more »

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There's No Pain-Free Cure for Recession

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 12/28/08

This WSJ op/ed is one of the nicest reality check commentaries I have seen on the panic over this recession. It would be irresponsible in the extreme for an individual to forestall a personal recession by taking out newer, bigger loans when the old loans can't be repaid. However, this is precisely what we are planning on a national level.I believe these ideas hold sway largely because they promise happy, pain-free solutions. They are the... read more »

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Krugmania

By Dr. Adrian Moore | 12/28/08

Max Borders examines why people love Paul Krugman despite his silly ideas and statements, and currently bad economics.Steve Horwitz puzzles over why Krugman doesn't understand the relationship between prices and wages.But to really dig in to Krugman folly, check out this analysis by Dan Klein and Harika Anna Bartlett based on all 654 of his NYTimes columns between 1997 and 2006 (you gotta want it!).Krugman is best interpreted as a committed... read more »