Christopher Clay DeMuth

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20036

Phone — 202.862.5895

Fax — 202.862.5921

E-mail — cdemuth@aei.org

Education

University of Chicago Law School (J.D. 1973)

Harvard College (A.B. 1968)

The Lawrenceville School (1964)

Current Occupation

D. C. Searle Senior Fellow,

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Previous Occupations

President, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (1986–2008)

Managing Director, Lexecon Inc., Washington, DC (1984–1986)

Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Regulation, Washington, DC (1986)

Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,

U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC (1981–1984)

Executive Director, Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief,

The White House, Washington, DC (1981–1983)

Director, Harvard Faculty Project on Regulation, and Lecturer in Public Policy,

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1977–1981)

Associate General Counsel, Consolidated Rail Corporation,

Philadelphia, PA (1976–1977)

Attorney, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL (1973–1976)

Staff Assistant to the President, The White House, Washington, DC (1969–1970)

Boards and Committees

Board of Directors, State Farm Insurance Companies (2004–present)

Grant Advisor, Smith Richardson Foundation (2002–present)

Board of Directors, Donors Capital Fund (2000–present)

Grant Advisor, Searle Freedom Trust (1997–present)

Chairman of the Board, Clean Burn, Inc. (1990–present)

Board of Trustees, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

(1986–2008)

Chairman of the Board, DeMuth Steel Products Company (1990–2006)

Visiting Committee, University of Chicago Law School (1998–2001)

Visiting Committee, Kennedy School of Government (1995–1998)

Board of Directors, Insurance Services Office (1990–1995)

Books and Monographs

Religion and the American Future (ed., with Yuval Levin), AEI Press 2008

An Agenda for Federal Regulatory Reform (with Robert W. Hahn, Robert W. Crandall, and Robert E. Litan), AEI Press 1997

The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (ed., with William Kristol), AEI Press 1995

Articles and Reviews

“Contemporary Conservatism and Government Regulation,” in The Future of American Conservatism (Joel Aberbach and Gillian Peele, eds.), Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010

“Rationalism in Regulation” (with Douglas H. Ginsburg) (review of Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore, Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health), 108 Michigan Law Review (forthcoming April 2010)

“The Practical Liberal,” The American (September 22, 2009)

“Think Tank Confidential,” The Wall Street Journal (October 11, 2007)

 “What the U.N. Needs Now” (with Herbert London), The Washington Times (September 7, 2006)

“Reaganomics: How’s It Going?,” National Review (August 28, 2006)

“Some Transatlantic Challenges,” AEI On the Issues (July 24, 2006)

“Unlimited Government,” The American Enterprise (January/February 2006)

 “Why the Economy Must Remain Job One,” The American Enterprise (June 2004)

“Guns, Butter, and the War on Terror,” The Wall Street Journal (April 29, 2004)

“Governors (and Generals) Rule,” The American Enterprise (January/February 2004)

“Practical Environmentalism versus Romantic Environmentalism” (with Steven Hayward), AEI Environmental Policy Outlook (July 2002)

“The Kyoto Treaty Deserved to Die,” The American Enterprise (September 2001)

“Smoke and Smearers” (with Steven Hayward), The Weekly Standard (October 30, 2000)

“Count Our Blessings, and Failings,” The Australian (May 23, 2000)

“Why the Era of Big Government Isn’t Over,” Commentary (April 2000)

“Politics and the Constitution at the EPA,” AEI On the Issues (July 1999)

“Wizards of Ozone,” The Weekly Standard (June 21, 1999)

“The Strange Case of the E-Rate,” AEI On the Issues (July 1998)

“The New Wealth of Nations,” Commentary (October 1997)

“Not Quite the End of Racism,” The Wall Street Journal (November 3, 1995)

“Real Regulatory Reform,” AEI On the Issues (May 1995)

“Regulatory Policy in the Reagan Administration,” in American Economic Policy in the 1980s (Martin Feldstein, ed.), University of Chicago Press 1993, p. 504

“Captain of Enterprise—Christopher DeMuth on the Business of Liberty” (interview), Policy Review (Spring 1992)

“Plastic Populism,” The Wall Street Journal (November 19, 1991)

“Is Perestroika Possible? Advice from a U.S. Deregulator,” Finanzmarkt und Portfolio Management (5 Jahrgang 1991)

“The Pen and the Scales” (review of Richard A. Posner, Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation), The Wall Street Journal (February 15, 1989)

“The Case Against Credit Card Interest Rate Regulation,” 3 Yale Journal on Regulation 201 (1986)

“White House Review of Agency Rulemaking” (with Douglas H. Ginsburg),

99 Harvard Law Review 1075 (1986)

“Regulation, Productivity, and the Reagan Administration's Regulatory Reform Program,” in Regulatory Reform Reconsidered (Gregory A. Daneke and David J. Lemak, eds.), Westview Press 1985

“A Strategy for Regulatory Reform,” Regulation (March/April 1985), p. 25

“Deregulation and Antitrust Reform,” 53 Antitrust Law Journal 189 (1984)

“The Chadha Decision and the Prospects for Regulatory Reform,” Administrative Law Journal (1984)

“What is Regulation?”, in What Role for Government? (Richard J. Zeckhauser and Derek Leebart, eds.), Duke University Press 1983, p. 262

“A Strong Beginning on Reform,” Regulation (January/February 1982), p. 15

“Constraining Regulatory Costs—The Regulatory Budget,” Regulation (March/April 1980), p. 29

“Constraining Regulatory Costs—The White House Review Programs,” Regulation (January/February 1980), p. 13

“The Regulatory Budget as a Management Tool for Reforming Regulation” (with Richard H. Sharkson, Eric O. Stork, and Arthur Wright), Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress, May 1979

“Why Are There Neoconservatives?”, The American Spectator (November 1979)

“The FTC's Tantrum Against Children's Television,” The American Spectator (April 1979)

“Protecting Consumers from Regulation,” The American Spectator (January 1978)

“Tubthumping in the Political Marketplace,” The Wall Street Journal (November 30, 1977)

“Class Conflict on the Nation's Freeways,” The Wall Street Journal (October 14, 1977)

“Off Track” (review of Dan Lufkin, Many Sovereign States), 15 Business and Society Review 106 (1975)

“Banfield Returns” (review of Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City Revisited), The Alternative (November 1974)

“Deregulating the Cities,” The Public Interest (Summer 1976)

“Revenue Sharing,” The Wall Street Journal (February 25, 1971)

Unpublished Papers

“Unintended Consequences and Intended Non-Consequences,” Bradley Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, June 2009

“Competition in Government,” presented at Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006

“Freedom’s Future: From Revolution to Institutions,” presented at a FAES Conference on Freedom and Revolution, Madrid, Spain, March 2005

“Economic Reform as a Security Strategy,” presented at an IPS Herzliya Conference on the National Security of Israel, Herzliya, Israel, December 2003

“Competition as a Principle of Good Government,” Inaugural Lecture, America’s Founding and Future Lecture Series, George Madison Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November 2002

“After the Ascent: Politics and Government in the Super-Affluent Society,” Francis Boyer Lecture, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, February 2000

“Genetic Research and Society,” presented at American Enterprise Institute conference, “The Promise of DNA Research,” Washington, DC, June 1997

“The Politics of Trade and ‘Bourgeois Liberalism’,” presented at American Enterprise Institute conference, "China's Modernization—Strategic and Economic Implications," Singapore, March 1987

“Should Product-Liability Law be Nationalized?” presented at National Science Foundation/ Carnegie-Mellon University conference, “Regulation at the Crossroads,” Pittsburgh, PA, September 1985

“Domestic Regulation and International Competitiveness,” presented at Harvard University conference, “U.S. Competitiveness in the World Economy,” Cambridge, MA, May 1980

“Advertising and the First Amendment,” Working Paper, Harvard Faculty Project on Regulation, Cambridge, MA, November 1979

Private Consulting Reports That Are Publicly Available

An Economic Analysis of the Vertical Integration Restriction in the Loews Antitrust Decree, prepared for Loews Theatre Management, Inc., November 1988

Economic Issues in the Mandatory Sale of an Ownership Interest in the Farley Nuclear Power Plant, prepared for the Alabama Power Company, July 1986

Consumer Banks and the Regulation of Banking (with Daniel R. Fischel, Alan S. Frankel, Andrew M. Rosenfield, and Robert S. Stillman), prepared for Sears Roebuck & Company, September 1985)

The Economics of Gray-Market Imports (with Dennis W. Carlton), prepared for the Coalition to Preserve the Integrity of American Trademarks, May 1985

Statement in Response to the National Telecommunications Information Administration's Request for Comments in Connection with the Comprehensive Study of the Structure and Regulation of the U.S. Telecommunications Industry (with Dennis W. Carlton, William M. Landes, and Andrew M. Rosenfield), prepared for Ameritech, February 1985

An Economic Analysis of the Medicare Physician Fee Freeze (with Sam Peltzman), prepared for the American Medical Association, December 1984

Personal

Married to Susan Ann DeMuth, M.D.; three children (Christopher DeMuth Jr., Elizabeth Gresham, Catherine DeMuth); three grandchildren (Henry Gresham, Alice Gresham, Christopher DeMuth III)