Richard Vedder

Why Is Richard Vedder Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Richard K. Vedder is an American economist, historian, author, and columnist. He is a professor emeritus of economics at Ohio University and senior fellow at The Independent Institute. Biography Vedder was born on November 5, 1940. He earned his bachelor's in economics in 1962 from Northwestern University in 1962 and his Ph.D in economics from the University of Illinois in 1965. He has since studied U.S. economic history, particularly as it relates to public policy. Some of his research has involved American immigration, economic issues in American education, and the interrelationship between labor and capital markets.

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Richard Vedder's Published Works

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Published Works

A NOTE ON MIGRATION, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE (1972) (148)
Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America (1993) (123)
Going Broke By Degree: Why College Costs Too Much (2004) (109)
The state and labor in modern America (1998) (94)
A Dynamic Analysis of Economic Freedom and Income Inequality in the 50 U.S. States: Empirical Evidence of a Parabolic Relationship (2012) (75)
Why Are Recent College Graduates Underemployed? University Enrollments and Labor-Market Realities. (2013) (74)
For-Profit Higher Education: Growth, Innovation and Regulation. (2010) (63)
Private school competition and public school teacher salaries (2000) (61)
Racial Differences in Unemployment in the United States, 1890–1990 (1992) (52)
A Note on Attitude as a Factor in Learning Economics. (1974) (48)
The economic effects of labor unions revisited (2002) (44)
Some Determinants of Interstate Migration of Blacks, 1965-1970 (1973) (44)
Mobility of Native Americans (1971) (40)
The American economy in historical perspective (1976) (37)
Why Are Recent College Graduates Underemployed (2013) (35)
Private vs. social returns to higher education: Some new cross-sectional evidence (2004) (33)
The distribution of the immigrant population in the United States: an economic analysis (1974) (32)
Emigration from the United Kingdom to the United States: 1860–1913 (1971) (31)
The Academics–Athletics Trade-Off: Universities and Intercollegiate Athletics (2010) (29)
Rent-seeking, distributional coalitions, taxes, relative prices and economic growth (1986) (28)
The minimum wage and poverty among full-time workers (2002) (25)
Spatial variations in U.S. unemployment (1996) (25)
Nineteenth century English and Welsh geographic labor mobility: Some further evidence (1974) (23)
25 Ways to Reduce the Cost of College. (2010) (22)
Determinants of interstate migration, by race, 1965–1970 (1973) (21)
Essays in nineteenth century economic history : the old Northwest (1976) (21)
The Economic Effects of Right to Work Laws (2011) (19)
Over Invested and over Priced: American Higher Education Today. (2007) (17)
The great depression of 1946 (1991) (17)
TIEBOUT, TAXES, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (1990) (17)
The Inmates Running the Asylum? An Analysis of Higher Education Accreditation. (2010) (17)
Intercollegiate Athletics Subsidies: A Regressive Tax. (2010) (16)
The austrian market share in the marketplace for ideas, 1871–2025 (2000) (16)
FRIEDMAN TAX CUTS VS. BUCHANAN DEFICIT REDUCTION AS THE BEST WAY OF CONSTRAINING GOVERNMENT (1992) (15)
The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy (2006) (15)
The slave exploitation (expropriation) rate (1975) (14)
PUBLIC POLICY, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES: HAVE WE REACHED DIMINISHING RETURNS? (2015) (13)
The Geographical Distribution of British and Irish Emigrants to the United States After 1800 (1972) (13)
Right-to-Work Laws: Liberty, Prosperity, and Quality of Life (2010) (13)
The European Union: From Jean Monnet to the Euro (2000) (13)
Why people work: An examination of interstate variations in labor force participation (1991) (12)
Wages, prices, and employment: Von mises and the progressives (1987) (12)
From Wall Street to Wal-Mart: Why College Graduates Are Not Getting Good Jobs. (2010) (12)
Can Teachers Own Their Own Schools?: New Strategies for Educational Excellence (2000) (11)
The Determinants of Emigration to South Africa, 1950–1967 (1970) (11)
The Immigration Problem: Then and Now (2000) (11)
The Tullock-Bastiat hypothesis, inequality-transfer curve and the natural distribution of income (1988) (11)
Settlement Patterns of Canadian Emigrants to the United States, 1850-1960 (1970) (11)
Twelve Inconvenient Truths about American Higher Education. A Policy Paper from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. (2012) (10)
Ideas versus ideology: The origins of modern labor economics (2003) (10)
For-Profit Education in the United States: A Primer. (2008) (9)
Faculty Productivity and Costs at the University of Texas at Austin: A Preliminary Analysis. (2011) (9)
The fraud of macroeconomic stabilization policy (2000) (8)
The impact of transfer payments on economic growth: John Stuart mill versus Ludwig Von Mises (2002) (8)
State and local economic development strategy : a "supply side" perspective : a staff study (1981) (8)
The determinants of internal migration in West Germany, 1967 (1971) (8)
Michigan Higher Education: Facts and Fiction (2007) (8)
Internal Labor Migration in Sweden, 1967 (1973) (8)
Migration, Economic Opportunity, and the Quality of Life: Reply and Extension (1975) (7)
The increasing urbanization thesis-did new immigrants to the United States have a particular fondness for urban life? (1971) (7)
Colleges Should Go beyond the Rhetoric of Accountability. (2008) (7)
Statistical malfeasance and interpreting economic phenomena (1997) (7)
The Wal-Mart Revolution (2006) (7)
The Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the Labor Market: The Role of Employment Discrimination Policies (2013) (7)
The political economy of the peace dividend (1996) (6)
Migration efficiency ratios and the optimal distribution of population. (1985) (6)
Does the Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty ? Executive Summary (2001) (6)
"Griggs v. Duke Power": Implications for College Credentialing. (2008) (6)
The Profit Motive in Education: Continuing the Revolution (2012) (6)
North Carolina's Higher Education System: Success or Failure?. (2008) (6)
For-Profit Schools Are Making a Comeback (2002) (5)
Comparable Worth: Salary Data Fail to Account for the Shorter Workday and Work Year in Teaching. Once Adjusted, Teacher Salaries Look about Right. (Forum) (2003) (5)
Cost Versus Enrollment Bubbles (2011) (5)
Essays on the Economy of the Old Northwest. (1989) (5)
School Productivity, Class Size, and Choice. (1988) (5)
Labor laws: Then and now (1996) (5)
The Profitability of Antebellum Manufacturing: Some New Estimates (1980) (5)
Demonstrating Their Freedom: The Post-Emancipation Migration of Black Americans (1986) (4)
Public Policy, Higher Education, and Income Inequality in the U.S.: Have We Reached Diminishing Returns (2014) (4)
Reviewing the reviewer: Ehrenberg on going broke by degree (2005) (4)
Slavery, Amenities, and Factor Price Equalization: A Note on Migration and Freedom (1983) (4)
Freedom, growth and entrepreneurship: several sources of US evidence (2015) (3)
Population Transfers and the Post-Bellum Adjustment to Economic Dislocation, 1870–1920 (1980) (3)
Wages, profits, and minority businesses (1999) (3)
U.S. Immigration Policy in the 21st Century: A Market-Based Approach (2012) (3)
The Tullock-Bastiat hypothesis and Rawlsian distribution strategies (1989) (3)
Unemployment: an international perspective (2000) (3)
The settlement preferences of Scandinavian emigrants to the United States, 1850–1960 (1970) (3)
Labor Market Reform in the United Kingdom: From Thatcher to Blair (2000) (3)
The profitability of ante bellum agriculture in the cotton belt: Some new evidence (1974) (3)
Why Johnny Can't Work: The Causes of Unemployment (1992) (2)
TAXES, GROWTH, EQUITY, AND WELFARE (2006) (2)
How big is the Austrian tent? A reply to Barnett and Block (2006) (2)
Michigan Higher Education: Facts and Fiction. Policy Brief. No. S2007-08. (2007) (2)
The Economic Impact of Washington's Minimum Wage Law (2003) (2)
The war between the rent seekers (1991) (2)
Productivity and Wages in the American Economy: A Tale of Two Centuries (2003) (2)
FEDERAL TAX REFORM: LESSONS FROM THE STATES (1985) (2)
Market-Based Education: What Can We Learn from Universities? (2005) (2)
Technology and a Safe Workplace (2000) (2)
Federal Tax Policy regarding Universities: Endowments and beyond. (2008) (2)
The Ames-Rosenberg hypothesis revisited (1974) (2)
American unemployment in historical perspective (1994) (2)
Reflections on the Current State of Political Economy (2016) (2)
For-Profit Education in the USA: A Primer (2010) (1)
Declining black employment (1993) (1)
The economic status of union workers in the United States (2006) (1)
Location decisions of recent immigrants to Sweden (1972) (1)
Government and unemployment: Reply to De Long (1998) (1)
Robotics and the economy : a staff study (1982) (1)
An Outcomes Based Assessment of Universities: Using "Who's Who in America". (2008) (1)
Variations in business and economic history : essays in honor of Donald L. Kemmerer (1982) (1)
Cliometrics in Ohio: A Consumer's Guide@@@Essays in Nineteenth Century Economic History: The Old Northwest. (1976) (1)
The employment effects of social security tax changes and minimum wage regulations: A case study of the American restaurant industry (1993) (1)
Twelve Public Policies for Economic Growth in Russia (0)
The Immigrant as a “ Problem ” in Historical Perspective (2000) (0)
Market Approaches to Immigration Restrictions (2000) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
Hoover and Wages in the Depression: A Comment on Douglas Mackenzie: A Rejoinder (2011) (0)
Benefits of College - By Degrees (2018) (0)
Big Proposals Based on Little Data (2006) (0)
The distributional impact of the eighties: Myth vs. reality (1993) (0)
Taxing America. Edited by Karen B. Brown and Mary Louise Fellows. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 363. $65.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. (1998) (0)
Internal Migration Patterns in the Midwest, 1850-1960 (1971) (0)
The Real Costs of Federal Aid to Higher Education. Heritage Lectures. No. 984. (2007) (0)
Government labor policies and the law of unintended consequences (2020) (0)
Slowing monetary growth since 1984: A public choice explanation (1997) (0)
Capital Crimes: Political Centers as Parasite Economies (2010) (0)
Money for nothing (2000) (0)
The Great Depression: A Tale of Three Paradigms (2017) (0)
Out of Work (2020) (0)
More Student Loans, Higher Tuition: Failing to Make the Connection (2020) (0)
The Law of Unintended Consequences Revisited: The Case of Ricci v. DeStefano. (2009) (0)
Essays in Nineteenth Century History: The Old Northwest. (1977) (0)
Taxes and Deficits: New Evidence (2011) (0)
The Peculiar Immobility: Regional Affinity and the Postbellum Black Migrant (2012) (0)
DOCUMENT(S) REVIEWED: "Michigan Higher Education: Facts and Fiction" (2007) (0)
INTER COUNTRY ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ON ECONOMIC GROWTH (2003) (0)
LOCATION DECISIONS OF PUERTO RICAN IMMIGRANTS TO THE UNITED STATES (2016) (0)
Doing More with Less (2017) (0)
Geographic migration within Sweden, 1952–1966 (1976) (0)
Factor in Learning Economics (2016) (0)
To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North by Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman (1988) (0)
The Economic Impact of a Right-to-Work Law on the Wisconsin Economy (2015) (0)
INTERSTATE BLACK MIGRATION: REPLY TO ZIEGLER (1976) (0)
American Higher Education (2012) (0)
The Mobility of Appalachian American (1972) (0)
THE MOBILITY OF APPALACHIAN AMERICANS (2019) (0)
A history of the federal deposit insurance corporation, 1934-1964 (1965) (0)
MARKET-BASED EDUCATION :W HAT CAN WE (2005) (0)
Higher Education in Washington: An External Assessment. (2008) (0)
The Decline and Crash of the American Economy. By Joel Kurtzman. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1988. Pp. 224. $18.95 (1989) (0)
Aspects of German Peasant Emigration to the United States, 1815–1914: A Reexamination of Some Behavioral Hypotheses in Migration Theory. By Takenori Inoki. Dissertations in European Economic History. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Pp. 274. $25.00 (1984) (0)
Dealing with Affordability Thoughts for the Affordability Task Force Future of Higher Education Commission (2005) (0)
Ideas versus ideology: The origins of modern labor economics — Reply to Budd (2005) (0)
The underground Federal economy : off-budget activities of the Federal Government : a staff study (1982) (0)
Viewpoint: 12 Inconvenient Truths about American Higher Education. (2012) (0)
Letters to the editor (1972) (0)
Introduction: The American Higher Education Problem (2010) (0)
Book reviews (1994) (0)
Why Does College Cost So Much? On the Issues. (2005) (0)
The Keynesian performance (1989) (0)
Jobs and Plant-Closing Legislation: What to Expect. (1994) (0)

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