Anthony Randazzo is a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.
His research portfolio is regularly evolving, and he maintains a wide interest in economic policy at both a domestic and international level.
Randazzo is also managing director of the Pension Integrity Project, which provides technical assistance to public sector retirement system stakeholders who are seeking to prevent pension plan insolvency. His research focus on the national public sector pension crisis has a dual focus of identifying the systemic factors that cause public officials to underfund pension obligations as well as studying the processes by which meaningful pension reform can be accomplished. Within the Project he leads the analytics team that develops independent, third party actuarial analysis to stakeholders considering changes to public sector retirement systems.
In addition, Randazzo writes about the moral foundations of economic theory, and is currently developing research on the ways that the moral intuitions of economists influence their substantive findings on topics like income inequality, immigration, or labor policy.
Randazzo's work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Barron's, Bloomberg View, The Washington Times, The Detroit News, Chicago Sun-Times, Orange-County Register, RealClearMarkets, Reason magazine and various other online and print publications.
During his tenure at Reason he has published substantive research on housing finance, financial services regulation, and various other aspects of economic policy at the federal level. And he has written regularly on labor economics, tax policy, privatization, and Turkish-U.S. political and economic issues.
Randazzo has also testified before numerous state and local legislative bodies on pension policy matters, as well as before the House Financial Services Committee on topics related to housing policy and government-sponsored enterprises.
He holds a multidisciplinary M.A. in behavioral political economy from New York University.
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Pension Reform Will Help Michigan Teachers
Recent pension reform legislation will improve retirement choices for future teachers, increase compensation for some recently hired teachers, and ensure the state will pay every dollar of pensions to teachers.
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Pension Reform Newsletter #37 (June 2017 edition)
Michigan's innovative teacher pension reform, Pennsylvania's major pension reform, Houston/Dallas pension reform legislation enacted, and more.
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Michigan Adopts Most Innovative Teacher Pension Reform in the Nation
Changes to MPSERS reduce risk, provide choice, stabilize long-term costs, and keep promises.
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Pension Reform Newsletter – May 2017
Arizona's second public safety pension reform, South Carolina funding policy, full pension funding, and more
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Arizona Reforms Second Public Safety Pension Plan
Reform of corrections, probation officer pension plan follows on heels of 2016 police & fire pension reform, using similar collaborative process.
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A Proposal That Would Make Pension Crisis Even Worse
It is the latest example of the unfunded public pension crisis hitting parts of California.
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Retirement Security Requires Fully Funding Public Pension Plans
Pensions are not designed to function as PAYGO, Ponzi-like operations.
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Pension Reform Newsletter – March 2017
The "Trump Bump" and investment returns, target date funds, hedge fund misinformation, Dallas pension crisis, and more
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Pension Reform Newsletter – February 2017
Pension funds and investment risk, more evidence supporting "new normal" for investment returns, recent pension reform trends, and more