Stephen Moore (economist)

Stephen Moore (born February 16, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) is an economist and policy analyst who founded and served as president of the Club for Growth from 1999 to 2004. He is currently a member of the "Wall Street Journal" editorial board and frequently opines on the pages of their Op-Ed section. He is also a contributing editor for "National Review".

He possesses a B.A. from the University of Illinois and an M.A. from George Mason University in economics. Moore usually advocates views in favor of free-market policies and supply-side economics such as those promoted by the Free Enterprise Fund, which he founded.

From 1983 through 1987, Moore served as the Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs at the Heritage Foundation. Moore also was a fellow of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

Moore was the senior economist of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee under Chairman Dick Armey of Texas. There, he was also an architect of the Armey flat tax proposal in 1995. The Armey Flat Tax still serves as a model for ideal flat tax legislation. He was also part of the research team hired by Americans For Fair Taxation to create the FairTax, the most cosponsored tax reform proposal in Congress. He is currently a partner in the econometrics firm Arduin, Laffer & Moore Econometrics.

He was interviewed by the Daily Show's Rob Riggle about the construction of affordable housing near Walt Disney World.

He is a frequent economics commentator on CNBC's "Kudlow & Company".

Bibliography

*"It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years" with Julian L. Simon (Cato Institute, 2000) ISBN 1-882577-97-3
*"Bullish On Bush: How George Bush's Ownership Society Will Make America Stronger" (Madison Books, 2004) ISBN 1-56833-261-0
*"Still an Open Door? U.S. Immigration Policy and the American Economy" (American University Press, 1994)
*"Privatization: A Strategy for Taming the Deficit" (The Heritage Foundation, 1988)
*He is also the editor of "Restoring the Dream: What House Republicans Plan to Do Now to Strengthen the Family, Balance the Budget, and Replace Welfare" (Times Mirror, 1995).
*He recently appeared on the 10/10/2008 episode of Bill Maher's HBO show "Real Time With Bill Maher.

Additional writings

* [http://www.cato.org/dailys/02-01-00.html "It's the Reagan Economy, Stupid"] with Lawrence Kudlow
* [http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1120 "Supply Tax Cuts and the Truth About the Reagan Economic Record"]
* [http://www.nationalreview.com/moore/moore200312020910.asp "Untrue at Any Speed"]
* [http://www.nationalreview.com/moore/moore011603.asp "Put Government on a Diet: Pass the Bush Tax Cut"]
* [http://www.nationalreview.com/moore/moore200503100951.asp "Welfare Reform II"]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n47_v9/ai_14667644 "Give Us Your Best, Your Brightest"]
* [http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-088es.html "Show Me the Money! Dividend Payouts after the Bush Tax Cut"] with Phil Kerpen

External links

* [http://www.nndb.com/people/742/000062556/ Stephen Moore at NNDB] .
* [http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/10/axis_of_evil_jo.html Guest appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher] .