Thomas Gale Moore, Senior Fellow at the
Hoover Institution, specializes in international trade, regulation, the
environment, and privatization. He has written on airline deregulation,
trucking regulation and deregulation, stock market margins, minimum wages,
energy policy, environmental policy and privatization. Recently, he has been
researching the economic consequences of global warming, should it occur, and
has written a book, which the Cato Institute
published April 22 on the subject, entitled: Climate
of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming. In July 1998, Economic Inquiry, published his article, "Health and Amenity
effects of Global Warming". Subsequently he has published 30 articles
in World Climate
Report on the subject of global
warming. In August of 2000, Hoover published his essay, In Sickness or in Health: The Kyoto Protocol versus
Global Warming.
He attended MIT, then enlisted in the U.S.
Navy where he served for four years during the Korean War. After his tour of
duty, he earned his B.A. degree from George Washington University in 1957, and
his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1959 and
1961.
Moore was a member of President Ronald
Reagan's Council on Economic Advisers from 1985 to 1989. In that capacity, he
supervised a staff of economists who advised the President on trade, tax,
regulation, agriculture, transportation, environment, and health issues. During
1968-70, he had served as Senior Staff Economist on the Council covering
regulatory and industrial organization issues.
Between 1985-89, Moore was a member of the
President's National Critical Materials Council and during 1988-89, he servied
as acting chairman. In 1989, Moore was a member of the President's National
Commission on Superconductivity. In 1988-89 he was acting chairman of the
President's National Critical Materials Council.
Before coming to Hoover, Moore was an
Associate Professor and then Professor of Economics at Michigan State
University where he taught graduate courses on economic theory and industrial
organization. Prior to joining Michigan State he was an Assistant Professor in
the Graduate School of Industrial Administration of the Carnegie Institute of
Technology. He has also taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and
University of California Los Angeles. Moore has written widely for both the
popular press and academic journals on economic, political, and law issues.
Moore is the author of the Economics of
the American Theatre, (Duke
University Press, 1968); Freight Transportation Regulation (American Enterprise Institute, 1972); Public
Claims on U.S. Output (American
Enterprise Institute, 1973); Uranium Enrichment and Public Policy (American Enterprise Institute-Hoover Institution
Policy Study 1978); Trucking Regulation: Lessons from Europe (American Enterprise Institute-Hoover Institution
Policy Study 18, 1976); co-edited the Essence of Stigler (Hoover Institution Press 1986).
Thomas Moore is an Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute and a Fellow of the
California Institute of International Studies. He serves on the Board of
Directors of the Competitive Enterprise
Institute, as a member of the Board of Advisors of The Independent Institute, and on
the Board of Editors of the Economic Series of Texas A&M University Press.
Moore also is on the Advisory Board of the Institute
for Market Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Moore is also serving as a board member of The Environmental Literacy Council.
The purpose of the Council is to improve the current state of environmental
education. Moore served on the Independent Commission on Environmental
Education that preceeded the Council. The Commission reviewed the most widely
used curricula, textbooks, and educational materials, and made recommendations
based on its evluation.