Education
The Lawrenceville School (1964)
University of Chicago Law School (J.D. 1973)
Harvard College (A.B. 1968)
Current Occupation (since December 1986)
President, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Previous Occupations
Managing Director, Lexecon Inc., Washington, DC (1984-86)
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 Trustees, American Enterprise Institute (1986 through present)
Board of Directors, State Farm Insurance Companies (2004 through present)
Grant Advisor, Smith Richardson Foundation (2002 through present)
Board of Directors, Donors Capital Fund (2000 through present)
Grant Advisor, Searle Freedom Trust (1997 through present)
Chairman of the Board, Clean Burn, Inc. and Millcreek Manufacturing Company,
(1990 through present)
Chairman of the Board, DeMuth Steel Products Company (1990 through 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)
Memberships
Illinois Bar (admitted 1973)
Supreme Court Bar
American Law and Economics
Association
Racquet Club (Chicago)
Bohemian Club (San Francisco)
Books and Monographs
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
Published Articles
"Think Tank Confidential," Wall Street Journal (October 11, 2007)
"What the U.N. Needs Now," (with Herbert London) Washington Times (September 7, 2006)
"Reaganomics: How's It Going," National Review Online (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," AEI On the Issues (May 1, 2004)
"Governors and Generals Rule," The American Enterprise (January/February 2004)
"Practical Environmentalism vs. 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)
"No, Really—We've Never Had it so Good," The Australian Financial Review (May 23, 2000)
“Why the Era of Big Government Isn't Over" Commentary (April 2000)
"Ozone and the Constitution at the EPA," (with Randall Luttler) AEI On the Issues (July 1999)
"Wizards of Ozone," The Weekly Standard (June 21, 1999)
"Taiwan Relations Act Imperatives" Washington Times (April 13, 1999)
"The Strange Case of the E-Rate," AEI On the Issues (July 1998)
“The New Wealth of Nations" Commentary (October 1997)
"Sports Stories: Control" The American Enterprise (July/August
1996)
"Not Quite the End of Racism," Wall Street Journal (November 3, 1995)
“Real Regulatory Reform" AEI On the Issues (May 1995)
“Regulatory Policy in the Reagan Administration,” American Economic Policy in the 1980s (Martin Feldstein, ed.), University of Chicago Press
1993
“Captain of Enterprise: Christopher C. 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) Nr. 2
"Economic Growth and 'American Decline,'" AEI On the Issues (1988)
“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,” Regulatory Reform Reconsidered (Gregory A. Daneke and David J. Lemak, eds.) Westview Press 1985
“A Strategy for Regulatory Reform,” Regulation (March/April 1985) 25
“Deregulation and Antitrust Reform,” 53 Antitrust Law Journal (1984) 189
“The Chadha Decision and the Prospects for Regulatory Reform,” Administrative Law Journal (1984)
“What is Regulation?,” 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) 15
“Constraining Regulatory Costs: The Regulatory Budget," Regulation (March/April 1980) 29
“Constraining Regulatory Costs: The White House Review Programs,” Regulation (January/February
1980) 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) 10
“The FTC's Tantrum Against Children's Television,” The American Spectator (April 1979) 18
“Defending Consumers Against Regulation,” The American Spectator (January 1978)
“Tubthumping in the Political Marketplace,” The Wall Street Journal (November 30, 1977)
“Deregulating the Cities,” The Public Interest (Summer 1976)
“Revenue-Sharing Implications: A Reply,” The Wall Street Journal (February 25, 1971)
Book Reviews
“The Pen and the Scales” (review of Richard A. Posner, Law and
Literature: A Misunderstood Relation), The Wall Street Journal (February 15, 1989)
“Class Conflict on the Nation's Freeways” The Wall Street Journal (October
14, 1977)
“Dan Lufkin Misses the Boat,” (review of Dan Lufkin, Many Sovereign States), 15 Business and Society Review (1975) 106
“Banfield Returns,” (review of Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City Revisited), The Alternative
(November 1974)
Unpublished Papers
"Competition in Government" (presented at the American Enterprise Institute, October 2004)
"Some Advantages of Competition in Government and Politics" (March 2004)
"Economic Liberty as a Security Strategy," (presented at the 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, D.C., 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)
“Is Deregulation Dead?” (presented at American Enterprise Institute conference, “Deregulation and Regulatory
Reform,” Washington, DC, December 1984)
“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 adult children.