Daniel B. Klein

Daniel Klein is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

Klein has published a wide array of research on policy issues including toll roads, urban transit, auto emission, credit reporting, and the Food and Drug Administration. He has written on spontaneous order, the discovery of market opportunity, the demand and supply of personal assurance, why government officials believe in the goodness of bad policy, and the relationship between liberty, dignity, and responsibility.

Klein is the chief editor of Econ Journal Watch, an online journal dedicated to economic criticism from a Smith-Hayek viewpoint. He has published several studies on the ideology of faculty in the social sciences. He is the coauthor of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit, editor of Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct, and editor of What Do Economists Contribute?

He has coauthored with Alex Tabarrok FDAReview.org, an extensive website on the Food and Drug Administration, and co-edited with Fred Foldvary a book The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues.

Klein holds degrees from George Mason University and New York University, where in both cases he studied the classical liberal traditions of economics.