David Richard Henderson (born November 21, 1950) is a Canadian-born American economist and author who moved to the United States in 1972 and became a U.S. citizen in 1986, serving on President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984.[1] A research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution[2] since 1990, he took a teaching position with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in 1984, and is now an emeritus professor of economics.[3]
Henderson earned his B.Sc (1970) from the University of Winnipeg, followed by his M.A. and Ph.D.(1976) in Economics from UCLA.[2] Henderson's areas of scholarly interest include microeconomics, cost–benefit analysis, health economics, energy economics, and the economics of taxation.[3]
A friend of economist Milton Friedman since they first met at the University of Chicago in 1970, Henderson took his advice to "make politics an avocation, not a vocation," pursuing a career course that led to earning a Ph.D. in economics.[4] Henderson first taught at the University of Rochester, Graduate School of Management, from 1975 to 1979. Next, he took a position at San Francisco-based Cato Institute from 1979-1980, and then a short stint at Santa Clara University from 1980 to 1981.[3] In 1982, Henderson joined President Reagan's administration as a senior economist with the Council of Economic Advisers, serving as senior economist for health policy from 1982 to 1984 and then senior economist for energy policy from 1983 to 1984.[5] Henderson writes about socioeconomic issues at the blog EconLog, along with Bryan Caplan, which The Wall Street Journal designated as one of the top 25 economics blogs in 2009.[6]
"The Supply-Side Tax Revenue Effects of the Child Care Tax Credit," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 673–675
"A Humane Economist's Case for Drug Legalization," UC Davis Law Review, University of California, Davis, Vol. 24, 1991, pp. 655–676
"Lessons of East Asia's economic growth," Obits, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Volume 41, Issue 3, Summer, July 1, 1997, pp. 427–443
"Do We Need to Go to War for Oil?" Independent Policy Reports', Independent Institute, September 1, 2007
^Naval Postgraduate School website [1] Retrieved February 9, 2017
^ abHoover Institution website [2] Retrieved February 9, 2017
^ abcNaval Postgraduate School website [3] Retrieved February 9, 2017
^David R. Henderson, "Milton Friedman: A Tribute", Antiwar.com, November 20, 2006
^Dwight R. Lee, editor, Public Choice, Past and Present: The Legacy of James M. Buchanan and Gordon, New York: Springer, 2013, p. xiv
^"Top 25 Economics Blogs: The Wall Street Journal's economics bureau sifted through the sea of economics blogs and determined the top 25, with five honorable mentions. (Listed in alphabetical order.)" July 16, 2009 [4]
