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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Pension Reform Newsletter – September 2016
Michigan pension reform, California court ruling, net amortization, bad pension investment returns, and more
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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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Privatization & Government Reform Newsletter #26 (August 2016 edition)
August 2016 edition: pay-for-success contracting, transportation & education trends, e-cigarettes, and more
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Pension Reform Newsletter – August 2016
Pension divestment, the "new normal," accounting rules and U.S. public pension risk-taking, pension investment in infrastructure and more
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Pension Reform Case Study: Michigan
Reforms in Michigan have benefited both taxpayers and state employees
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Did Pension Reform Improve the Sustainability of Pension Plans?
Evidence from a Counterfactual Analysis of Michigan and Alaska
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Confronting Myths About Closing Defined Benefit Plans
Evidence from Pension Reform in Michigan and Alaska
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How Public Sector Defined Benefit Pension Plans Are Funded
Defined benefit plans are pre-funded, not pay-as-you-go like Social Security
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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.
