The War on Prices
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My name is Ryan Bourne, R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics at Cato. Weekly column for The Times (UK). Author, Economics In One Virus and editor of The War on Prices.
Director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute.
Research Fellow @Cato CMFA | PhD in Economics from UC Irvine | Research in monetary policy and macro-finance.
Research Associate at Cato.
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