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Weidenbaum, Murray Lew was born on February 10, 1927 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of David and Rose (Warshaw) Weidenbaum.
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Murray Weidenbaum has been a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a speaker at meetings at the Brookings Institution, the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation and has also written for their publications, and served as a reviewer of ongoing studies. In The Competition of Ideas, Weidenbaum examines the political economy of these vital institutions, drawing heavily on several decades of involvement in their activities. He is uniquely able to see their accomplishments as well as their shortcomings. Because of the importance of the activities of their organizations, and their tax-exempt status, think tanks are held to a high standard. Weidenbaum shows that sometimes think tanks are more tank than think—major think tanks are often predictable in the positions they take on public issues and are far better at analyzing the shortcomings of other elements of society than of their own operations. The overarching issue of quality control, Weidenbaum holds, deserves more attention than it has attained in the think tank world. This book presents a careful, balanced account of where think tanks have been and where they are now headed. Given the high levels of professionalism in many think tanks, a fundamental change in the attitude of their management is important. The compelling need is less for the wielder of policy than for the lucid synthesizer of relevant research and analysis. Likewise, society needs sensitivity to the long-term concerns of the citizenry more urgently than rapid response to the opportunities of the moment. Future competition, particularly among the major think tanks, could well be centered, not on achieving greater visibility, but on developing responses to economic, environmental, and national security problems that are likely to be adopted and carried out.
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economist and government official
Weidenbaum, Murray Lew was born on February 10, 1927 in Bronx, New York, United States. Son of David and Rose (Warshaw) Weidenbaum.
Bachelor of Business Administration, City College of New York, 1948. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1949. Master of Public Administration, Princeton University, 1954.
Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1958. Doctor of Laws, Baruch College, 1981. Doctor of Laws, University Evansville, 1983.
Doctor of Laws, McKendree College, 1993.
Fiscal economist Bureau Budget, Washington, 1949—1957. Corporation economist Boeing Company, Seattle, 1958—1962. Senior economist Stanford Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, 1962—1963.
Member faculty Washington University, St. Louis, since 1964, professor, chairman department economics, 1966—1969, Mallinckrodt professor, since 1971, director Center for Study American Business, 1974—1981, Washingon University, St. Louis, 1982—1995. Chairman Center for Study American Business Washington University, 1995—2000. Assistant secretary economic policy United States Department Treasury, Washington, 1969—1971.
Chairman Council of Economic Advisors The White House, 1981—1982. Honorary chairman Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, St. Louis, since 2001. Chairman research advisory committee St. Louis Regional Industrial Development Corporation, 1965—1969.
Executive secretary President's Committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament, 1964. Member United States Finance Investment Advisory Panel, 1970—1972. Consultant various firms and institutions.
Chairman United States Commission to Review the Trade Deficit, 1999—2000. With United States Army, 1945.
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Author: Federal Budgeting, 1964, Modern Public Sector, 1969, Economics of Peacetime Defense, 1974, Economic Impact of the Vietnam War, 1967, Government-Mandated Price Increases, 1975, The Future of Business Regulation, 1980, Rendezvous With Reality: The American Economy After Reagan, 1988, Rendezvous With Reality: The American Economy After Reagan, paperback edition, 1990, Business, Government, and the Public, 1990, Small Wars, Big Defense, 1992, The Bamboo Network, 1996, Business and Government in the Global Marketplace, 2004, One-Armed Economist, 2004, Advising Reagan: Making Economic Policy, 1981-1982, 2005, Competition of Ideas, 2008. Member editorial board: Publius, 1971—2004, Journal Economic Issues, 1972-1975, Challenge, 1974-1981, since 1983, Business and the Contemporary World, 1997—2000.
Fellow: International Academy Management, American Academy Arts & Sciences, Association for Private Enterprise Education (Adam Smith award 1986), City College Alumni Association (Townsend Harris medal 1969), Society Technology Communications, National Association Business Economists, Cosmos.
Married Phyllis Green, June 13, 1954. Children: Susan, James, Laurie.