Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore (also known as Steve Moore) is a conservative-libertarian economist and political activist best known for playing a lead role in the creation of the Club for Growth. The Club for Growth supports conservative candidates for public office, and is best known for targeting moderate Republican officeholders for defeat when they face close races against more conservative challengers. The group was, for example, very active in support of conservative Congressman Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA), now executive director of Club for Growth, when he unsuccessfully challenged moderate Republican incumbent Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) in the 2004 GOP senatorial primary.

• Free Enterprise Fund, Founder [1]
• National Review, Contributing Editor
• Institute for Policy Innovation, Senior Research Fellow for the IPI Center for Economic Growth (bio)
  • founded by Armey
• Cato Institute, Senior Fellow (bio)
• Virginia Institute for Public Policy, Member of the Board of Scholars (bio)
• 'Free Market Project' at the Media Research Center, Member of the 'Board of Advisers'

Formerly:

• Club for Growth, President
• Dick Armey (R-TX), Senior Economist at Joint Economic Committee
  • advised on budget, tax, and competitveness issues; architected flat tax proposal
• Heritage Foundation, Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Budgetary Affairs
• Cato Institute, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies
• Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, adjunct scholar [2]
• Hoover Institution, visiting scholar [http:www.uncommonknowledge.org/99winter/uncommon-winter99.html]

Critics

"A voodoo economist ... [who uses] especially devious methods to torture the data," says The New Republic's Jonathan Chait. "[H]is career has been marked by a pattern of errors, deception and falsehood," concurs Spinsanity. "Moore has zero credibility" concludes economist Brad DeLong.

Brendan Nyhan and Ben Fritz, The deceptive advocacy of Stephen Moore, Spinsanity, September 22, 2003.
J. Bradford Delong, Cranks and Charlatans, March 1, 2003.
Jonathan Chait, Less is Moore, The New Republic, June 30, 1997.

Praise

"A influential tax-cut advocacy group." - Washington Post on the Club for Growth

Writings

Stephen Moore is the author, co-author and editor of several books and essays like:

• Stephen Moore, "Privatization: A Strategy for Taming the Deficit Economy", The Heritage Foundation, 1988
• Stephen Moore, "Slashing the deficit, fiscal year 1990: A blueprint for a balanced budget by 1993", Heritage Foundation, 1989, ISBN 0891950486
• Stephen Moore, "How Economists View the Impact of Immigrants," Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, 1990 [3]
• Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Stephen Moore, "Still an Open Door? U.S. Immigration Policy and the American Economy", American University Press, August 2, 1994, ISBN 1879383322
• Richard Vedder, Lowell Gallaway, Stephen Moore, "Immigration and Unemployment: New Evidence", Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, March 1994 [4] [5] [6]
• Stephen Moore, "Government: America's No. 1 Growth Industry : How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America", Institute for Policy Innovation, January 1995, ISBN 0964612704
• Stephen Moore, Dick Armey, Newt Gingrich, "Restoring the Dream: The Bold New Plan by House Republicans", Random House, May 1995, ISBN 0812926668
• Stephen Moore, "Immigration and the Rise and Decline of American Cities", Hoover Institute, June 1, 1997, ISBN 0817958622
• Stephen Moore, "Welfare for the Well-Off: How Business Subsidies Fleece Taxpayers", Hoover Institute, May 1999 [7]
• Sanford J. Ungar, Julian L. Simon, Stephen Moore, "The Economic Consequences of Immigration", University of Michigan Press, September, 1999, ISBN 0472110500
• Stephen Moore, Julian L. Simon, "It's Getting Better All the Time : 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years ", Cato Institute, October 1, 2000, ISBN 1882577973
• Richard Vedder, Lowell Gallaway, Stephen Moore, "The Immigration Problem: Then and Now", The Independent Institute, winter 2000, [8]

Articles & Commentary

• "Moore Passes Torch to Toomey. Former PA Congressman to Lead Preeminent Pro-Economic Growth Advocacy Group," Club for Growth, January 6, 2005.