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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Unmasking the Mortgage Interest Deduction: Who Benefits and by How Much? 2013 Update
The mortgage interest deduction causes harmful economic distortions and its benefits are concentrated among the wealthy
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Considering the Not-So-New Normal for Unemployment
June's labor market report wasn't very exciting, but does reflect the now long-term trend
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Crony Capitalism and Sallie Mae
Sallie Mae and Uncle Sam: Cronyism in Higher Education Finance
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Crony Capitalism and Community Development Subsidies
Do commmunity development subsidies actually result in community development? Or have they been captured by vested interests?
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Federal Privatization Update
Annual Privatization Report examines privatization and public-private partnership trends at the federal level
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ANALYSIS: Privatization of Financial Regulation is Not Impossible
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Federal Government Privatization
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Ahead of the Curve Issue No. 14: The Economic Mess of the Recovery Act
Happy birthday to the stimulus
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Reducing Federal Spending is the Only Permanent Fiscal Fix
The fiscal cliff deal took a step backwards on spending reform
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Fiscal Cliff Proposals Still Promoting Out of Control Spending
Whether we go over the cliff or not, Congress isn't anywhere close to spending responsibly
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Unmasking the Mortgage Interest Deduction – Update 2012
Who Benefits and By How Much?
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It’s Time To Shut Down the Federal Housing Administration
Congress needs to start phasing out the insolvent FHA now, or it is possible taxpayers could be on the hook for yet another massive bailout in 2013
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Obama’s Biggest Economic Challenge in 2013
Consumer Debt Creating an Economic Catch-22 in the President's Second Term