Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin fellow at the Institute for
Political Economy, research fellow at the Independent Institute and
senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford
University.
Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin fellow at the Institute for
Political Economy, research fellow at the Independent Institute and
senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford
University. A former editor and columnist for The Wall Street
Journal, he writes a political commentary column for Creators
Syndicate. He also writes a monthly economics column for Business
Week.
In 1992, he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in
Journalism. In 1993, he was ranked as one of the top seven
journalists by the Forbes Media Guide.
He was distinguished fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to
1996. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William E. Simon chair in
political economy at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies. From 1981 to 1982, he served as assistant secretary of the
Treasury for economic policy. President Reagan and Treasury
Secretary Regan credited him with a major role in the Economic
Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and he was awarded the Treasury
Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding
contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy."
From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff
where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in
developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy.
In 1987, the French government recognized him as "the artisan
of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of
state interventionism" and inducted him into the Legion of
Honor.
Dr. Roberts' latest book is The New Colorline: How Quotas and
Privilege Destroy Democracy, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton and
published by Regnery in October 1995. Meltdown: Inside the Soviet
Economy, co-authored with Karen LaFollette, was published by the
Cato Institute in 1990. His book, The Supply-Side Revolution, was
published by Harvard University Press in 1984. Widely reviewed and
favorably received, the book was praised by Forbes as "a timely
masterpiece that will have real impact on economic thinking in the
years ahead." He is the author of Alienation and the Soviet
Economy, published in 1971 and republished in 1990, and Marx's
Theory of Exchange, Alienation, and Crisis, published in 1973 and
republished in 1983.
Roberts has held numerous academic appointments and has published
many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of
Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and
Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary
Economics, Public Finance Quarterly, Public Choice, Classica et
Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Rivista Di
Politica Economica, and Zeitschrift Fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has
contributed to Commentary, The Public Interest, Harper's, The New
York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Fortune,
Investor's Business Daily, London Times, Financial Times, The
Spectator, IL Sole 24 Ore, Le Figaro, Liberation and The Nihon
Keizai Shimbun. He has testified before committees of Congress on
over 30 occasions.
Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology,
the University of Virginia, the University of California at Berkeley
and Oxford University, where he was a member of Merton College.