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Daniel
Klein, Professor
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, New York University, defended 1989, conferred 1990.
- B.S., Economics, George Mason University, 1984.
Profile
Daniel
Klein is Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University. He
holds degrees from George Mason University and New York University, where
in both cases he studied the classical liberal traditions of economics.
His teaching focuses on economic principles and public policy issues.
At Santa Clara he is also Director of the Civil Society Institute.
Professor Klein has published research on policy issues including toll
roads, urban transit, auto emission, credit reporting, and the Food and
Drug Administration. He has also written on spontaneous order, the discovery
of opportunity, the demand and supply of assurance, why government officials
believe in the goodness of bad policy, and the relationship between liberty,
dignity, and responsibility.
Klein is the coauthor of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise
in Urban Transit, editor of Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation
of Good Conduct, and editor of What Do Economists Contribute?
Recently, Klein has coauthored with Alex Tabarrok a comprehensive Web
site on the Food and Drug Administration (FDAReview.org), and co-edited
with Fred Foldvary a book The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New
Technology Affects Old Policy Issues (New York University Press, 2003).
Klein spends several months every year in Stockholm, where he is an Associate
Fellow of the Ratio Institute.
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