John C. Mozena
John C. Mozena is a senior fellow at the Reason Foundation specializing in state and municipal economic development policy. He is also the president of the Center for Economic Accountability.
Mozena spent more than two decades in a variety of private sector roles that frequently took him behind the scenes of economic development deals before he transitioned to public policy advocacy as a vice president at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan. In 2018, he co-founded the Center for Economic Accountability, a nonpartisan think tank that advances free-market, limited-government economic development policy reforms across the country.
Mozena’s economic development policy advocacy has appeared in national media outlets including National Review, The Hill, RealClear Policy, Reuters, The Guardian, Reason, Site Selection, Tax Notes, Daily Caller, The American Conservative, Baseball Prospectus, City Journal, Fast Company, The Bond Buyer and Automotive News. His focus on state and local policy has also seen him published or quoted in major local media outlets across the country including the Albany Times-Union, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bridge Michigan, Buffalo News, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Crain’s Chicago Business, Crain’s Detroit Business, Des Moines Register, Detroit News, Indianapolis Star, Kansas City Star, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Los Angeles Daily News, Newsday, Nashville Tennessean, Providence Journal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Tampa Bay Times, Washington Examiner, Washington Post and Washington Times.
He is a lifelong resident of Michigan, where despite his advocacy against their subsidized stadiums he remains a fan of Detroit’s sports teams.
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A generational wave of stadium subsidies is approaching
Elected officials across the country are incurring hundreds of millions—if not billions—of dollars in debt and future obligations to replace or update stadiums.