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About the Authors

Milton Friedman	Milton Friedman, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 1976, is a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dr. Friedman is the author of many books and articles, among them Capitalism and Freedom, which he coauthored with his wife, Rose D. Friedman.
Lawrence Kudlow	Lawrence Kudlow is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, and an economics commentator for CNBC.
Arthur Laffer	Arthur Laffer is the president of A.B. Laffer and Associates and a former member of President Ronald Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board.
Stephen Moore	Stephen Moore is the president of the Club for Growth and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is the co-author of It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Past 100 Years.
Brian Wesbury	Brian Wesbury is first vice president and chief economist at Griffin, Kubik, Stephens & Thompson, Inc. He is the author of The New Era of Wealth, published in 1999 by McGraw Hill.
Nicholas Eberstadt	Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and is a longtime member of the Harvard University Center for Population and Development Studies. He is the author of Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems, published in 2000 by AEI Press.
William A. Niskanen	William A. Niskanen is chairman of the Cato Institute and a former economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan.
W. Michael Cox	W. Michael Cox is vice president and chief economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He is the author of Myths of Rich and Poor: Why We’re Better Off Than We Think, published in 1999 by Basic Books.
Robert Crandall	Robert Crandall is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He is the author, with Leonard Waverman, of Who Pays for Universal Service? When Telephone Subsidies Become Transparent; and Talk Is Cheap: The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications.
William G. Gale	William G. Gale is the Joseph A. Pechman Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.
David Hale	David Hale is global chief economist of the Zurich Group.