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: [[Jeffrey R Clark]]
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''Education
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1970: B.S. Virginia Commonwealth University<br>
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1972: M.A. Virginia Polytechnic Institute<br>
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1974: Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute<br>
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Before he began working at the University of Tennessee-Chattanoogna (UTC) he had several positions like:
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*Joint Council on Economic Education in New York
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*professor and chairman of the Department of Economics and Finance (Samuel J. Silberman College of Business Administration) at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU), New Jersey
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*Tom E. Hendrix Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee at Martin (UTM)
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http://www.utm.edu/~jsandefe/pages/prof.html]
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http://tobaccodocuments.org/ti/TIOK0010974-0977.html?]
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*research fellow at Princeton University
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==Documents & Timeline==
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<b>1987-1990</b>[[J.R. Clarke]] first appears in the tobacco documents as an economic lobbyist in early 1987. He never uses his first name -- he is always known by initials.
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J.R. Clark has transferred from a (unknown) position at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (circa Apr 87) - to a full professorship at the Fairleigh Dicksinson University in New Jersey, where he was Chairman of the Economics and Finance Department of the Business Administration college. Two years later he is back with the University of Tennessee, but now on the Martins campus and with a "Free Enterprise" chair.
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<b>1987 Mar 30</b> News piece in the Chattanooga News-Free Press saying "A successful political campaign against smoking, while base on improving the nation's health, could made Tennessee's economy sick. They are quoting J.R. Clark at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. (No title of Professor). He called himself an "avid non-smoker", but said that warning labels on cigarettes, and data on the negative health effects of smoking would cause a gradual voluntary drop in tobacco use. He was also against the regressivity of excise tax increases. <font color=green>
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: A Tobacco Institute letter explains the apparent discrepancy. Clark was actually a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson Uni, but he gave the news journalist an interview. (he may have been briefly seconded to the Tennessee Uni)</font> [http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/qrpc0034]
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His news item is grouped with a number of op-eds from the Cash for Comments Economists Network around the same date.
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A later page in the same folder, dated April 5 1987 is a fairly balanced article by journalist Lawrence Hackett in the ''Sunday Star-Ledger'' It has a picture of "J.R.Clark" and quotes him an economist from New Jersey's '''Fairleigh Dickinson University'' (FDU). He is the Chairman of the economics and finance department at the FDU's Samuel J. Silberman College of Business Administration. [http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/qrpc0034]
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This Professor J.R. Clark PhD is arguing against higher taxes and smoking bans in office buildings because it would accelerate the downfall of the tobacco industry, causing unemployment and adding thousands to the welfare rolls. He is concerned because Chase Econometrics says that 7,863 New Jersey workers were directly employed in the tobacco industry. Clark says their employment adds $1.35 billion to the state. He argues that ''"a successful political campaign against smoking, predicated upon improving the nation's health, could well turn out to make the New Jersey economy very sick."''
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The following page is an op-ed by the Fairleigh Dickinson University professor in the ''Morristown Daily Record'' (Apr 12 1987) It attacks the anti-smoking crusade , and takes the same line about the damage to New Jersey's economy.
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The FDU professor also has a 'Point-of-view' article in the ''Daily Record, Northbridge'' (NJ) Aug 29 "Excise taxes could negate tax reform" where he rails against the regressivity of excise taxes. [http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/kjcy0031]
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<b>1990 Jan</b> The Communications activity report of the Tobacco Institute lists achievements:<blockquote><I>Editorials, written by economists [[Richard K. Vedder]] of Ohio University, [[Dominick Armentano]] of the University of Hartford, and [[J.R. Clark]] of the University of Tennessee, appeared.
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These editorials, opposing excise taxes and discussing "user fees," appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the New Haven Register, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Jackson Sun, the Kingsport Times, the Paris Post-Intelligencer, and the Weakley County Press. Copies are enclosed.</i>[http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/ggph0047]</blockquote>
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<b>1990 June 7</b>An article by J.R. Clark "Rhetoric and Emotion cover tax increases" has been published in Memphis "''The Commercial Appeal''". He is now listed as holding the "Tom E Hendrix Chair of Free Enterprise" at the University of Tennessee, Martin. He gives a long breakdown on hwo the economy of Tennessee would be adversly effected by a reduction in smoking.
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He also writes another forum article "A tax by any other name is still a tax, just masked." for the ''Jackson Sun'' The photo accompanying the article leaves no doubt that this is the same person as the Fairleigh Dickinson Professor.
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<b>1970 July</b> The Tobacco Institute's Communications activity report includes a note that "Economists are weighing in on the federal budget debate with a new series of anti-excise tax op-eds in key congressional districts. Economists appearing in print (copies enclosed) include:
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: - [[J.R. Clarke, Jackson (TN) Sun and Memphis Commercial Appeal; (Note misspelling)
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: - Ryan Amacher, Anderson (GA1 Independent-Mail;
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: - Todd Sandler, Fort Dodge (IA) Messenger;
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: - Domenick Armentano, Hartford (CT) Courant;
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: - William Mitchell, Register Guard (OR); and
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: - Barry Poulson, Alamaso (CO) Valley Courier.[http://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/rfph0047]
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<b>1995 Nov 5</b> J.R.Clark now holds the Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee at Chatanooga (again) He is still writing for the tobacco industry "More Regulation Would be Wasteful" appeared in ''Chattanooga Free Press''.
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On the list of 'Communications Activities in January 1990' of the [[Tobacco Institute]] is written: "''Editorials, written by economists [[Richard Vedder|Richard K. Vedder]] of Ohio University, [[Dominick T. Armentano |Dominick Armentano]] of the University of Hartford, and J.R. Clark of the University of Tennessee, appeared. These editorials, opposing excise taxes and discussing "user fees," appeared in ..''" [http://tobaccodocuments.org/rjr/507793542-3551.html?]
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In the Tobacco Institute's "Public Affairs Management Progress Report" of February 1990 they wrote on page 3: <blockquote>''Several new excise tax projects progressed in February, ... These undertakings supplement the 1990 tax program and are an effort to aggressively bolster anti-excise tax arguments and maintain a "fair taxation" environment.<p>The 1990 op-ed program involving <u>consulting economists'</u> articles on the excise tax and "user fee" question moved forward last month. We reviewed additional draft articles and returned them to the authors to seek placement.<p>Meanwhile, the previously cleared op-eds continue to appear in print. Recently published articles include those by J.R. Clark (with placements in five different Tennessee newspapers); ...''" [http://tobaccodocuments.org/ti/TIMN0362721-2761.html?] (emphasis added)</blockquote>
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In that same document they mentioned that the year-to-date expenses for the 'prof. fees' were $90,768 but with the remark that "''Billing from some <u>consultants</u> will appear in upcoming months''".
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In July 1990
Jeffrey
Clark was mentioned in another internal document of the Tobacco Institute as one of the <u>consulting economists</u> who are "''weighing in on the federal budget debate with a new series of anti-excise tax op-eds to be placed in newspapers in key congressional districts.''" [http://tobaccodocuments.org/rjr/507610925-0926.html?]
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Jeff Clark was a professor of Economics at UTC when he was a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the pro-tobacco junk science report [[Science, economics, and environmental policy: a critical examination]] [http://tobaccodocuments.org/lor/92756807-6876.html] published on August 11, 1994, by the [[Alexis de Tocqueville Institution]] (AdTI). Also Richard Vedder was a member of that Academic Advisory Board.
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His biographical information says about Mr. Clark<blockquote>"''His <u>consulting</u> experience includes <u>Fortune 500 companies</u>, government agencies, universities, and publishing firms as well as performing litigation support for law firms in personal injury, wrongful death, business evaluations and matrimonial cases.''" [http://web.archive.org/web/20030215193109/cecasun.utc.edu/~jclark/jrcintro.htm] (emphasis added)</blockquote>
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His former colleague Judy Ann Sandefer wrote about him<blockquote>"''A <u>self-made millionaire</u>, he was and is very different from anyone I have ever known, ..''" [http://www.utm.edu/~jsandefe/pages/prof.html] (emphasis added)</blockquote>
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== Dwight
R
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He wrote together with [[Dwight R. Lee]] (antoher member of that Academic Advisory Board) several articles:
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*Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R.
Clark
, "Public Choice and Cognitive Dissonance," ''The Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice'', October 1994
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*Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, 1996. "Sentencing Laffer curves, political myopia, and prison space" ''SocialScience Quarterly'' 77 (2): 245-55.
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*Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, 1997. "Too safe to be safe," ''Eastern Economic Journal'' 23 (Spring): 127-37
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*Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, "Distrust and Verify", ''The Freeman'', February 1999
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*Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, "The Optimal Trust in Government," ''Eastern Economic Journal'' Vol. 27, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 19-34,
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The UTC received in 1998 $4,000 from the [[Earhart Foundation
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with the comment:<blockquote>''Jeff Ray Clark<br>Department of Economics<br>During the summer of 1998 to prepare one or more journal articles on the topic "Optimal Trust in Government."'' [http://www.mediatransparency.org/view_grant.php?grantID=12979]</blockquote>
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Jeffrey Clark was the President of the [[Association of Private Enterprise Education]] (APEE).
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''Current Positions:''
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*board of the Palmer R. Chitester Fund
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*board of the William B. Cockroft Foundation
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*Scott L. Probasco, Jr. Chair of Private Enterprise at UTC
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*member of the [[Mont Pelerin Society]]
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== Books ==
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*James Gwartney, J.R. Clark, [[Richard L. Stroup|Richard Stroup]], "Essentials of Economics", 1st edition 1982, ''Harcourt College Pub'', 2nd edition, March 1, 1985 ISBN 0123110351
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*J. Holton Wilson, J.R. Clark, "Economics: The Science of Cost, Benefit, and Choice," 1st edition, 1983, 2nd edition, 1987, 3rd edition, 1992, 4th edition, 1997, 5th edition, 2000. ''South-Western Publishing Co., ISBN 0538614005
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*J.R. Clark, Clifford F. Thies, Holton Wilson, Saul Barr, "Macroeconomics for Managers", ''Pearson Higher Education'', December, 1990, ISBN 0205128718
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*Jeff Ray Clark, J. Holten Wilson, "Survey of Economics ", ''South-Western College Pub'', September 13, 1996, ISBN 0538846771
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== Related Links ==
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*Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, "[http://www.independent.org/tii/news/990200Lee.html Distrust and Verify]", ''The Freeman'', Februari 1999
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*Stephen Shmanske, "[http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/pdffiles/winter02/shmanske.pdf Enrollment and Curriculum: A Laffer Curve Analysis]", ''Journal of Economic Education'', winter 2002
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*"[http://web.archive.org/web/20030215193109/cecasun.utc.edu/~jclark/jrcintro.htm Biographical Information]", ''University of Tennessee at Chattanooga'', 2003
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*"[http://www.utc.edu/Academic/Business/profile_clark.htm J.R. Clark]", ''University of Tennessee at Chattanooga'', 2003