Alan Reynolds
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Alan Reynolds is one of the original supply side
Supply-side economics
Supply-side economics is a school of macroeconomic thought that argues that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering barriers for people to produce goods and services, such as lowering income tax and capital gains tax rates, and by allowing greater flexibility by reducing...

 economists.

He is currently Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute
Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the largest privately held...

 and was formerly Director of Economic Research at the Hudson Institute (1990–2000). He served as Research Director with National Commission on Tax Reform and Economic Growth (the "Kemp Commission"), an advisor to the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, and as a member of the OMB transition team in 1981.

His studies have been published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Joint Economic Committee, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and St. Louis and the Australian Stock Exchange. The latter paper was influential in the decision by the Australian Government to cut the capital gains tax
Capital gains tax
A capital gains tax is a tax charged on capital gains, the profit realized on the sale of a non-inventory asset that was purchased at a lower price. The most common capital gains are realized from the sale of stocks, bonds, precious metals and property...

 rate in 1999.

Reynolds received his A.B. in economics from UCLA in 1965 and pursued graduate studies at night at Cal State Sacramento
California State University, Sacramento
California State University, Sacramento, popularly known as Sacramento State, is a public university located in the city of Sacramento, California. It is part of the California State University system...

 from 1967 to 1970.

Author of Income and Wealth (Greenwood Press 2006), and The Microsoft Antitrust Appeal (Hudson Institute 2001), he has written for numerous publications since 1971 including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, National Review, The New Republic, Fortune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times and The Harvard Business Review. Reynolds is a former columnist with Forbes, Reason and Creators Syndicate.

Books

  • Microsoft Antitrust Appeal (Hudson Institute, 2001)
  • After Enron: Lessons for Public Policy (Chapter 3, "Political Responses to the Enron Scandal," and Chapter 17, "Compensation, Journalism, and Taxes")
  • Income and Wealth (Greenwood Press, 2006) ISBN 0-313-33688-1

Articles and other contributions

  • Alan Reynolds, "Full-Employment Budgeting: How Good a Guide to Public Policy?", Tax Foundation (April 1, 1977)
  • Alan Reynolds, "What Do We Know About the Great Crash?", National Review (Sept 9, 1979)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Why Gold?", Cato Journal (vol. 3, no. 1, Spring 1983)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Some International Comparisons of Supply-Side Tax Policy", Cato Journal (vol. 5, no. 2, Fall 1985)
  • Alan Reynolds, "National Prosperity is No Mystery", Orbis (Spring 1996)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Capital Gains Tax: Analysis of Reform Options for Australia", Australian Stock Exchange (July 1999)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Monetary Policy by Trial and Error," in The Supply-Side Revolution 20 Years Later, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress (March 2000)
  • Paul Craig Roberts and Alan Reynolds, "What Really Happened in 1981?", The Independent Journal (Fall 2000)
  • Robert A. Levy
    Robert A. Levy
    Robert A. Levy is the chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute and the organizer and financier behind District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court Case that established the Second Amendment as affirming an individual right to gun ownership. He is a Cato senior fellow and an author and pundit...

    and Alan Reynolds, "Microsoft's Appealing Case", Policy Analysis (by the Cato Institute), No. 385 (November 9, 2000)
  • Alan Reynolds, "The Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix", The Cato Journal (Fall 2001)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Do Budget Deficits Raise Long-Term Interest Rates?", Tax & Budget (by the Cato Institute), No. 1 (February 2002)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Crises and Recoveries: Multinational Failures and National Successes", Cato Journal (vol. 23, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2003)
  • Alan Reynolds, "The Conventional Hypothesis: Deficit Estimates, Savings Rates, Twin Deficits and Yield Curves", U.S. Treasury (2004)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Deficits, Interest Rates, and Taxes. Myths and Realities", Policy Analysis (by the Cato Institute), No. 517 (June 29, 2004)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Budget Deficits: Old Theories v. New Facts", Apple Daily (September 22, 2004)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Class Struggle?, The Wall Street Journal (May 18, 2005)"
  • Alan Reynolds, "No Housing Bubble Trouble", Washington Times (January 9, 2005)
  • Alan Reynolds, "The Top 1% of What?", The Wall Street Journal (December 15, 2006)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Has U.S. Income Inequality Really Increased?", Policy Analysis (by the Cato Institute), No. 586 (January 8, 2007)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Income Inequality Claims Ring Hollow When Correctly Examined", Budget and Tax News (May 2007)
  • Alan Reynolds, "Economic Hysteria", The New York Post (April 11, 2008)

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