Anthony Randazzo
Senior Fellow, Reason Foundation
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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The Only “Streak” That Matters is How Often Pension Investment Returns Exceed Expectations
Pension administartors in Florida, California, and others are taking a strange tone with respect to their investment returns this year
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Confronting Myths About Closing Defined Benefit Plans
Evidence from Pension Reform in Michigan and Alaska
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Arizona’s Public Safety Pension Reform Plan Is Notable Fiscal Achievement
The affordability of future pension benefits, the reduced financial risk exposure for taxpayers/employers, and the ending of unfunded post-retirement benefit increase.
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Arizona’s Public Safety Pension Reform Will Help Improve the Plan’s Solvency
Changes make benefits more affordable, reduce the volatility in employer costs, and end unfunded post-retirement benefit increases
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Arizona Enacts Groundbreaking Public Safety Pension Reform
Collaborative process yielded consensus on wide-ranging reforms
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Signs Comprehensive Pension Reform Legislation
Arguably more notable than the reform itself is the process used to achieve stakeholder consensus on the reform package.