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'''Richard
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'''Richard
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Vedder''' was a well-known cash-for-comments academic economist from Ohio University who also worked for many years -- and in secret -- for the tobacco industry. However he was free with his favours and he worked for a wide range of other ultra-free-market libertarian organisations and some of their supporting industries.
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Vedder was a member of the [[Tobacco Institute|Tobacco Institute's]] clandestine [[Cash for
Comment
Economists' Network]] -- a group of academics that the [[tobacco industry]] recruited who worked behind the scenes to fight proposed tax increases on cigarettes and the declining acceptability of public and workplace smoking by generating favorable research for publication, presenting favorable papers at academic conferences and symposia, and being ready to challenge the "social costs" economic arguments employed by anti-smoking activist at public and legislative forums.
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Vedder was a member of the [[Tobacco Institute|Tobacco Institute's]] clandestine [[Cash for
Comments
Economists' Network]] -- a group of academics that the [[tobacco industry]] recruited who worked behind the scenes to fight proposed tax increases on cigarettes and the declining acceptability of public and workplace smoking by generating favorable research for publication, presenting favorable papers at academic conferences and symposia, and being ready to challenge the "social costs" economic arguments employed by anti-smoking activist at public and legislative forums.
Members of the Institute's Economists Network also assisted by writing letters-to-the-editor and lecturing to journalists on behalf of the industry.<ref>James Savarese [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ytq97b00 Memorandum to Fred Panzer, Jeff Ross and Susan Stuntz], Tobacco Institute documents collection, Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, January 6, 1987, Bates No. TI18230621 at page -0626</ref><ref>Tobacco Institute [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/bsv02f00 Taxes/Witnesses], Confidential list, January, 1986, 13 pp, Bates No. TIFL0507522/7534</ref><ref>Tobacco Institute PR Division [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/evx62f00 Public Relations Resource Catalog], Tobacco Institute confidential list, 132 pp. Bates No.TIMN0272132/226 at (TIMN272146) or Page 15, January 1986</ref>
Members of the Institute's Economists Network also assisted by writing letters-to-the-editor and lecturing to journalists on behalf of the industry.<ref>James Savarese [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ytq97b00 Memorandum to Fred Panzer, Jeff Ross and Susan Stuntz], Tobacco Institute documents collection, Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, January 6, 1987, Bates No. TI18230621 at page -0626</ref><ref>Tobacco Institute [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/bsv02f00 Taxes/Witnesses], Confidential list, January, 1986, 13 pp, Bates No. TIFL0507522/7534</ref><ref>Tobacco Institute PR Division [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/evx62f00 Public Relations Resource Catalog], Tobacco Institute confidential list, 132 pp. Bates No.TIMN0272132/226 at (TIMN272146) or Page 15, January 1986</ref>
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ALEC, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, The Independent Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution and the National Taxpayers Union have all received money from [[Koch Family Foundations|Koch foundations]].
ALEC, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, The Independent Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution and the National Taxpayers Union have all received money from [[Koch Family Foundations|Koch foundations]].
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==Background==
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==Affiliations==
==Affiliations==
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* Senior Fellow at [[The Independent Institute]]
* Senior Fellow at [[The Independent Institute]]
* Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the [[Public Interest Institute]]
* Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the [[Public Interest Institute]]
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<b>1993:</b> [[Richard Vedder]] and [[Lowell Gallaway]] did a study for the [[Alexis de Tocqueville Institution]] (AdTI) about the impact of immigration on the American economy.<ref>Ohio University [http://www.ohiou.edu/economics/faculty_staff/Gallaway.html Curriculum Vita, Lowell E. Galloway], organizational website, staff biosketch, accessed July 9, 2011</ref> In March 1994, AdTI published the report "Immigration and Unemployment: New Evidence" written by Richard Vedder, Lowell Gallaway and [[Stephen Moore]], who is also affiliated with ALEC.<ref>Richard Vedder, Lowell Gallaway, and Stephen Moore, Immigration and Unemployment: New Evidence, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Arlington, Virginia (March 1994)</ref><ref>American Legislative Exchange Council [http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Board_of_Scholars&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=15722 Board of Scholars], organizational web page, accessed July 9, 2011</ref>
<b>1993:</b> [[Richard Vedder]] and [[Lowell Gallaway]] did a study for the [[Alexis de Tocqueville Institution]] (AdTI) about the impact of immigration on the American economy.<ref>Ohio University [http://www.ohiou.edu/economics/faculty_staff/Gallaway.html Curriculum Vita, Lowell E. Galloway], organizational website, staff biosketch, accessed July 9, 2011</ref> In March 1994, AdTI published the report "Immigration and Unemployment: New Evidence" written by Richard Vedder, Lowell Gallaway and [[Stephen Moore]], who is also affiliated with ALEC.<ref>Richard Vedder, Lowell Gallaway, and Stephen Moore, Immigration and Unemployment: New Evidence, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, Arlington, Virginia (March 1994)</ref><ref>American Legislative Exchange Council [http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Board_of_Scholars&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=15722 Board of Scholars], organizational web page, accessed July 9, 2011</ref>
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<b>1993 late</b>, Vedder served as "peer-reviewer" for a pro-tobacco junk science report titled ''Science, Economics, and Environmental Policy: A Critical Examination,'' also published by AdTI. There are many documents in the [[Tobacco Institute]] documents online mentioning Richard Vedder. Many of them are confidental reports listing allied economists and academics who were willing to provide expert testimony for tobacco companies.
One such document states,
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<b>1993 late</b>, Vedder served as "peer-reviewer" for a pro-tobacco junk science report titled ''Science, Economics, and Environmental Policy: A Critical Examination,'' also published by AdTI. There are many documents in the [[Tobacco Institute]] documents online mentioning Richard Vedder. Many of them are confidental reports listing allied economists and academics who were willing to provide expert testimony for tobacco companies.
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<blockquote>Professor [[Richard Vedder]] (Ohio University) wrote an op-ed article on tax reform that appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer in April (newspaper in home district of Ways & Means Member Gradison). Copies were sent to Gradison and Ways & Means Member Pease.<ref>Tobacco Institute [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/blu02f00 Federal Markets], Confidential report on allies and academics in Ohio], 1985, 27 pp at page 20, (or TIFL 0512986), Tobacco Institute Bates No. TIFL0512967/2993</ref></blockquote>
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