David R. Henderson is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution

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 and is also associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School

Naval Postgraduate School

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 in Monterey, California, where he has taught since 1984.

Henderson earned his B.S. (1970) from the University of Winnipeg

University of Winnipeg

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, and his Ph.D. (1976) in Economics from UCLA. Dr. Henderson's areas of scholarly interest include microeconomics

Microeconomics

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, Cost-benefit analysis

Cost-benefit analysis

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, health economics

Health economics

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, energy economics

Energy economics

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, and the economics of taxation.

Dr. Henderson has contributed articles to publications such as Independent Review, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

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, Fortune

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, The Freeman, Reason, The New York Times, Barron's, and The Los Angeles Times.

Dr. Henderson edited The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (1993) and The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2008). Henderson is the author of The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002) and coauthor (with Charles L. Hooper) of Making Great Decisions in Business and Life (2006).