Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore (also known as Steve Moore), a conservative-libertarian economist and political activist best known for playing a lead role in the creation of the Club for Growth, following a rift, was "privately ousted" as the organization's president and CEO and "publicly announced his resignation" in December 2004. In January 2005, Moore and "some prominent" Club for Growth "members including Arthur B. Laffer, a board member, along with Mallory Factor, a businessman."(did what?)

In May 2005, Moore wrote a letter to Club for Growth members in which he said: "'To see the club splintered this way was a heart-breaking tragedy, but the good news is most of the original founding committee members of the old Club for Growth that we built into such a political juggernaut helped me launch the Free Enterprise Fund,' he continued. He said he was leaving to join The Wall Street Journal's editorial board and turning the new group over to Mr. Factor, adding that there remained 'a crying need' for an organization to hold Republican officials' 'feet to the fire.'"

Affiliations

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

Formerly:

• Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, adjunct scholar [1]
• Cato Institute, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies
• Club for Growth, President & CEO
• 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
• 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

External Articles

Books and Essays by Moore

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 [2]
• 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 [3] [4] [5]
• 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 [6]
• 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, [7]

General Article

• "Moore Passes Torch to Toomey. Former PA Congressman to Lead Preeminent Pro-Economic Growth Advocacy Group," Club for Growth, January 6, 2005.
• Peter Roff, That's Politics! column, UPI (Washington Times), January 6, 2005: Economist Stephen Moore, "president of the politically influential Club for Growth ... is moving on to start a new group, The Free Enterprise Fund, a grass-roots organization that will build support for the Bush White House initiatives to kill the so-called death tax, reform Social Security through the creation of private accounts, repeal the capital-gains tax and enact commonsense legal reforms to curtail outrageous lawsuit judgments that impose millions in costs to the U.S. economy each year."
• David D. Kirkpatrick, "Leadership Dispute Causes a Split in a Powerhouse of Fund-Raising for Conservative Causes," New York Times, July 8, 2005.