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David R. Henderson, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution and an economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, was the senior economist for health policy with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. Charles L. Hooper is a visiting fellow with the Hoover Institution and president of Objective Insights, a company that consults for pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

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The Soviet Unionization of Health Care

Few of us relish paying for health care, but when we do, amazing things happen: Strangers listen to us and try to give us what we want. Theres a simple economic rule that what we ...

The Economics of War (video)

On June 8, 2008, David Henderson gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety. David R. Henderson is an associate professor of economics at ...

Paul Krugman’s Nobel Prize

On Monday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is Princeton University economist Paul Krugman. Krugman, probably the best known economist under the age ...