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James C. Miller III

323 Lyle Lane
Washington, VA 22747
540-675-3633 (phone)
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Curriculum Vitae

May 2011

 

Education and Professional Activities

 
  Degrees:
Ph.D. (Economics), University of Virginia, 1969
B.B.A. (Economics), University of Georgia, 1964
 
  Current  
Positions:

Senior Advisor, Husch Blackwell, LLC, since June, 2006





     
Member, Board of Directors, Washington Mutual Investors Fund, since October 1992 (Member of Advisory Board, November 1989 - October 1992)
     
               
     
Member, Board Directors, The Tax Exempt Fund of Maryland, since April 2000
     
               
     
Member, Board of Directors, The Tax Exempt Fund of Virginia, since April 2000
     
               
     
Member, Board of Directors, The J.P. Morgan Value Opportunities Fund, December 2001 -









Chairman of the Executive Committee, International Tax and Investment Center, since September 2009





        Senior Fellow (by courtesy), Hoover Institution (Stanford University), since December 1988
         
        Adjunct Scholar, Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, since October 1988
     
               
     
Member, Board of Directors, Americans for Prosperity, since February 2004
     
               
     
               

Previous  
Positions:

Member, Board of Governors, U.S. Postal Service,  April 2003 (elected chairman 2005, 2006, and 2007); renominated for second term.












 

Chairman of an Independent Commission to address the fiscal challenges of Cayman Islands Government ("Miller-Shaw Report") October 2009 - February 2010
       
      Member, Board of Directors-Emeritus (previously Member of Board), Progress & Freedom Foundation, April 1994 - March 2006




     

Member, Board of Directors-Emeritus (previously Co-Chairman or Counselor), The Tax Foundation, October 1989 - October 2008





      Chairman (or Chairman Emeritus), The CapAnalysis Group (of Howrey, L.L.P.), April 2002 - January 2006




      Member, Board of Directors, Independence Air (formerly Atlantic Coast Airlines d.b.a. "United Express" and “Delta Connection”), March 1995 - January 2006







Member, Board of Visitors, George Mason University, June 1998 - June 2002




     

Distinguished Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, August 1997 - April 2003





     

Director, LECG – Economics-Finance, November 2002 - April 2003

       
      Member, Board of Directors (and/or Counselor), Citizens for a Sound Economy, January 1989 - April 2003







Member, Board of Directors, The Tax Foundation, October 1989 - April 2003







Senior Advisor, Hagler Bailly, January 2000 - November 2002







Member, Board of Visitors, U.S. Air Force Academy, November 1988 - November 1990







Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Member of President's Cabinet, and Member of National Security Council, October 1985 - October 1988
















Vice Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States, December 1987 - October 1988 (Member of Council, November 1981 - December 1987)















Chairman, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, September 1981 - October 1985
















Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; and Executive Director, Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief, January 1981 - September 1981





     

Resident Scholar, Center for the Study of Government Regulation, The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, January 1977 - January 1988; Co-Director of the Center, March 1977 - January 1981; Member, Board of Editors, Regulation, July 1977 - January 1981; and Member, Board of Editorial Advisors, The AEI Economist, September 1977 - January 1981

     
               
     

Consultant, National Science Foundation, July 1977 - January 1981

     
               
     

Lecturer (in Economics), George Washington University, September 1971 - May 1972, September 1975 - May 1976, and September 1978 - December 1980

     
               
     

Assistant Director (for Government Operations and Research), U.S. Council on Wage and Price Stability, October 1975 - January 1977

     
               
     
Adjunct Scholar, The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, May 1975 - January 1977
     
               
     

Senior Staff Economist, U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, July 1974 - October 1975






     

Associate Professor of Economics, Texas A&M University, August 1972 - May 1974

     
 
     

Consultant, U.S. Department of Transportation, March 1972 - July 1974

     
 
     

Consultant, National Bureau of Standards, January 1974 - June 1974






       

Research Associate, The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, May 1972 - July 1972






       

Associate Staff, The Brookings Institution, August 1972 - May 1974






       

Senior Staff Economist, U.S. Department of Transportation, December 1969 - February 1972

         
       

Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgia State University, September 1968 - December 1969

                       
  Affiliations:   American Economic Association
                       
        Public Choice Society
                       
        Southern Economic Association (elected Vice President, 1990-1991; elected Member of Executive Committee, 1980-1982)
                       

Selected Publications and Presentations

                       
  Books:   Monopoly Politics (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1999)
                       
        Fix the U.S. Budget!: Urgings of an "Abominable No-Man" (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1994)
                       
        The Economist as Reformer: Revamping the FTC, 1981-1985 (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1989)
                       
        The Federal Trade Commission: The Political Economy of Regulation (co-editor and contributor, with Robert J. Mackay and Bruce Yandle), Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1987
                       
        Reforming Regulation (co-editor and contributor, with Timothy B. Clark and Marvin H. Kosters;), Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1980
                       
        Benefit-Cost Analyses of Social Regulation: Case Studies from the Council on Wage and Price Stability (co-editor with Bruce Yandle), Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1979
                       
        Perspectives on Federal Transportation Policy (editor and contributor), Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1975)
                       
        Economic Regulation of Domestic Air Transport: Theory and Policy (with George W. Douglas), Washington: Brookings Institution, 1974
                       
        Why the Draft?: The Case for a Volunteer Army (editor and contributor; Baltimore), Penguin Books, 1968
                       
  Monographs:   The Economics of the Military Draft (with Ryan C. Amacher et al.), Morristown: General Learning Press, 1973)
                       
        Transportation Legislation (published anonymously) Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1972
                       
  Articles:   "Public Choice Theory and Antitrust Policy: Comment," Public Choice (March 2010)




      “Economics and the All-Volunteer Military Force” (and with Beth J. Asch and John T. Warner), in John Siegfried, ed., Better Living Through Economics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010)







 “An Event Analysis Study of the Economic Implications of the FCC’s UNE Decision: Backdrop for Current Network Sharing Proposals” (with Jeffrey A. Eisenach and Paul S. Lowengrub), 17 Commonlaw Conspectus 33 (2008)




     

“Monopoly Politics and Its Unsurprising Effects,” in Roger Koppl, ed., Money and Markets : Essays in Honor of Leland B. Yeager (London : Routledge, 2006)





      “The Tyranny of Budget Forecasts” (with J.D. Foster), Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 2000)
                       
        “Incumbents’ Advantage,” George Mason University Working Papers in Economics (December, 1997)
                       
        "Suggestions for a Leaner, Meaner Budget," Jobs & Capital (Spring 1995)
                       
        "Budget Process and Spending Growth" (with Mark Crain), William and Mary Law Review (Spring 1990)
                       
        "Independent Agencies -- Independent from Whom?," Administrative Law Review (Fall 1989)
                       
        "A Reflection on the Independence of Independent Agencies," Duke Law Journal (1988)
                       
        "It's Time to Free the Mails," Cato Journal (Spring/Summer 1988)
                       
        "Spending and Deficits" (with an introduction by Robert D. Tollison), G. Warren Nutter Lecture in Political Economy, The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1987; reprinted in Thomas Jefferson Center Foundation, Ideas, Their Origins, and Their Consequences (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1988)
                       
        "Predation: The Changing View in Economics and the Law" (with Paul Pautler), Journal of Law and Economics (May 1985)
                       
        "Comments on Baumol and Ordover," Journal of Law and Economics (May 1985)
                       
        "Industrial Policy: Reindustrialization through Competition or Coordinated Action?" (with Thomas F. Walton, William E. Kovacic, and Jeremy A. Rabkin), Yale Journal on Regulation (1984)
                       
        "The Case Against Industrial Policy," Cato Journal (Fall 1984)
                       
        "Report from Official Washington," Antitrust Law Journal (1984)
                       
        "Reindustrialization Policy: Atari Mercantilism?," in Richard B. McKenzie (ed.), Plant Closings: Public or Private Choice? (revised edition; Washington: CATO Institute, 1984)
                       
        "Resale Price Maintenance: An Analytical Framework," Regulation (January/February 1984)
                       
        "Is Organized Labor Rational in Supporting OSHA?," Southern Economic Journal (January 1984)
                       
        "A Note on Centralized Regulatory Review" (with William F. Shughart II and Robert D. Tollison), Public Choice (January 1984)
                       
        "Comparative Data on Life-Threatening Risks," Toxic Substances Journal (Summer 1983)
                       
        "Report from Official Washington," Antitrust Law Journal (1983)
                       
        "Occupational Exposure to Acrylonitrile: A Benefit/Cost Analysis," Toxic Substances Journal (Winter, 1982/1983)
                       
        "Report from Official Washington," Antitrust Law Journal (1982)
                       
        "Regulatory Relief under President Reagan," Jurimetric Journal (Summer 1982)
                       
        "The (Nader-) Green-Waitzman Report," Toxic Substances Journal (Winter 1980/1981)
                       
        "Has the 1970 Act Been Fair to Mailers?" (with Roger Sherman), in Roger Sherman (ed.), Perspectives on Postal Service Issues (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1980)
                       
        "Collective Ratemaking Reconsidered: A Rebuttal," Transportation Law Journal (1980)
                       
        "Regulation and the Prospect of Reform," in Charles F. Phillips, Jr. (ed.), Regulation, Competition and Deregulation -- an Economic Grab Bag (Lexington: Washington and Lee University, 1979)
                       
        "Airline Market Shares vs. Capacity Shares and the Possibility of Short-Run Loss Equilibria," Research in Law and Economics (1979)
                       
        "An Economic Analysis of Airline Fare Deregulation: The Civil Aeronautics Board's Proposal," Transportation Law Journal (1978)
                       
        "Regulators and Experts: A Modest Proposal," Regulation (November/December 1977)
                       
        "Regulatory Reform: Some Problems and Approaches," American Enterprise Institute Reprint No. 72 (August 1977)












        "Lessons of the Economic Impact Statement Program," Regulation (July/August 1977)
                       
        "The New 'Social Regulation'" (with William Lilley III), Public Interest (Spring 1977); reprinted extensively
                       
        "Effects of the Administration's Proposed Aviation Act of 1975 on Air Carrier Finances," Transportation Journal (Spring 1976); reprinted in Paul W. MacAvoy and John W. Snow (eds.), Regulation of Passenger Fares and Competition Among the Airlines (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1977)
                       
        "Environmental Protection: The Need to Consider Costs and Benefits" (with Robert L. Greene), Highway Users Quarterly (1976)
                       
        "A Perspective on Airline Regulatory Reform," Journal of Air Law and Commerce (Autumn 1975)
                       
        "Rates of Publication Per Faculty Member in Forty-five 'Rated' Economics Departments" (with Robert D. Tollison), Economic Inquiry (March 1975)
                       
        "Government Regulation" (principal author), Chapter 5 in Economic Report of the President, 1975
                       
        "Quality Competition, Industry Equilibrium, and Efficiency in the Price-Constrained Airline Market" (with George W. Douglas), American Economic Review (September 1974)
                       
        "The CAB's Domestic Passenger Fare Investigation" (with George W. Douglas), Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science (Spring, 1974); reprinted by the Brookings Institution (Technical Series Reprint T-008)
                       
        "The Optimal Pricing of Freight in Combination Aircraft," Journal of Transport Economics and Policy (September 1973)
                       
        “A Time of Day Model for Aircraft Scheduling," Transportation Science (August 1972)
                       
        "Marginal Revenue and Pigouvian Second Degree Price Discrimination" (with Richard A. Bilas and Fred A. Massey), Metroeconomica (August 1971)
                       
        "The Implicit Tax on Reluctant Military Recruits" (with Robert D. Tollison), Social Science Quarterly (March 1971)
                       
        "A Note on Profits, Entry, and Scale of Plant in the Purely Competitive Model," Revista Internazionale de Scienze Economiche e Commerciali (February 1971)
                       
        "Pigou's Three Degrees of Price Discrimination" (with Richard A. Bilas), Revista Internazionale de Scienze Economiche e Commerciali (February 1971)
                       
        "A Program for Direct and Proxy Voting in the Legislative Process," Public Choice (Fall 1969); reprinted in Ryan C. Amacher, Robert D. Tollison, and Thomas D. Willett (eds.), The Economic Approach to Public Policy: Selected Readings (Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1976)
                       
        "Short-run Solutions to Airport Congestion," Atlanta Economic Review (October 1969); reprinted in Cambell R. McConnell (ed.), Economic Issues: A Book of Readings (4th ed.; McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972)
                       
        "A Paradox on Profits and Factor Prices: Comment," American Economic Review (September 1968)
                       
        "Marginal Criteria and Draft Deferment Policy" (with Robert D. Tollison and Thomas D. Willett), Quarterly Review of Economics and Business (Summer 1968)
                       
        "An Army of Volunteers," Forensic Quarterly (May 1968)
                       
        "An Aircraft Routing Model for the Airline Firm," American Economist (Spring 1968)
                       
        "A Critique of Joan Robinson's Economic Philosophy," Western Politica (Autumn 1967)
                       
  Presentations before Regulatory Agencies:   Co-authorship of and responsibility for approximately 60 Council on Wage and Price Stability filings and/or testimony before U.S. Government agencies, including the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Health, Education and Welfare, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Transportation; the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Coast Guard, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Energy Administration, the Federal Power Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Trade Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the International Trade Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Postal Rate Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (October 1975 January 1977)
                       
        Other testimony before the Department of Energy, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Postal Rate Commission, the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures, and the California and Pennsylvania public utilities commissions (1970-1979)
                       

Presentations before Committees of the U. S. House of Representatives:
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations; U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget; U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary; U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Public Works and Transportation; U.S. House of Representatives Republican Study Committee; U.S. House of Representatives Rules Committee; U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Administrative Law & Governmental Relations, Committee on the Judiciary; U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Legislation and National Security, Committee on Government Operations; U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Monopolies & Commercial Law, Committee on Judiciary; U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce; U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology, Committee on Science and Technology; U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Small Business Problems, Committee on Small Business; U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Transportation and Commerce, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; and U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations
                       
  Presentations before Committees of the
U. S. Senate:
  U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations; U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget; U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Committee on the Judiciary; U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs; U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary; U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, Committee on the Judiciary; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, Committee on the Judiciary; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Committee on Labor and Human Resources; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary, Committee on Appropriations; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Consumer, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Federal Expenditures, Research and Rules, Committee on Government Affairs; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, Committee on Governmental Affairs; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Productivity and Competition, Committee on Small Business; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Committee on the Judiciary; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations; and U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging
                       
  Presentations
before
Joint
Congressional
Committees:
  U.S. Joint Economic Committee, Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy, U.S. Joint Economic Committee; Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity and Economic Growth, U.S. Joint Economic Committee; Congressional Grace Caucus; and Motor Carrier Ratemaking Study Commission 
                       
  Expert Reports
before U.S. Courts:
  Various