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Speaker: Jerry Taylor on the Dangers of Dogma & Ideology
TEP 2118
5000 Forbes Avenue, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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The Niskanen Center is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that advocates environmentalism, immigration reform, civil liberties, and a national defense policy based on market principles. The center is named after the late William A. Niskanen, a former economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan.
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TEP 2118
5000 Forbes Avenue, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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Jerry Taylor
Founder & President
The Niskanen Center
Jerry Taylor is the president of the Niskanen Center. Prior to founding the Center in 2014, Mr. Taylor spent 23 years at the Cato Institute, where he served as director of natural resource studies, assistant editor of Regulation magazine, senior fellow, and then vice president. Before that, Mr. Taylor was the staff director for the energy and environment task force at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
Over the past two decades, Mr. Taylor has been one of the prominent and influential libertarian voices in energy policy in Washington. He is the author of numerous policy studies, has testified often before Congress, and his commentary has appeared in The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other prominent print and electronic outlets.