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TOBACCO INDUSTRY EXPLANATORY

ABBREVIATIONS
JARGON
SPIN-MEISTERS
INITIALS
FIRST & NICKNAMES
Misc.RESEARCH HELP
Smoking-Gun docs.

RELEVANT LINKS
Cash-for-comment economists' network
General TI networks
CORE GROUP
George Berman
James Savarese
Ctr.Study Pub.Choice
James Buchanan
Robert Tollison
Anna Tollison
Richard Wagner
James C Miller III
Carol M Robert
Elizabeth A Masaitis
Committee on Tax & Economic Growth
Harold Hochman
Fred McChesney
Thomas Borcherding
Delores T Martin
Dennis Dyer
George Minshew
William Prendergast
Bill Orzechowski
CASH-FOR-COMMENT
NETWORK MEMBERS

Dominick Armentano
Burton A Abrams
Lee Alston
Ryan C Amacher
Gary Anderson
Lee Anderson
William Anderson
Terry Anderson
Roger Arnold
Richard W Ault
Michael Babcock
Joe A Bell
Bruce L Benson
Jean J Boddewyn
Peter Boettke
Thomas Borcherding
William J Boyes
Charles Breeden
Lawrence Brunner
Henry N Butler
Bill Bryan
Cecil Bohanon
Morris Coates
Roger Congleton
Jeffrey R Clark
Michael Crew
Allan Dalton
John David
Michael Davis
Arthur T Denzau
Clifford Dobitz
John Dobra
Randall Eberts
Robert B Ekelund
Roger L Faith
David Fand
Susan Feigenbaum
Clifford Fry
Lowell Gallaway
Celeste Gaspari
David ER Gay
Kenneth V Greene
Kevin B Grier
Brian Goff
Sherman Hanna
Anne Harper-Fender
Kathy Hayes
Dennis Hein
James Heins
Robert Higgs
F Steb Hipple
Harold M Hochman
George E Hoffer
John Howe
William Hunter
Stephen Huxley
John D Jackson
Joseph M Jadlow
Cecil Johnson
Samson Kimenyi
David Klingaman
Michael Kurth
David Laband
Suuner Lacroix
Dwight R Lee
Dennis Logue
C. Matt Lindsay
Donald P Lyden
Craig MacPhee
Mike Maloney
Delores Martin
Chuck Mason
Charles Maurice
Fred McChesney
James E McClure
William McEachern
Richard McKenzie
Robert McMahon
Arthur Mead
Paul L Menchik
John F Militello
William C Mitchell
Greg Neihaus
Allen Parkman
Mark Pauly
William Peterson
Harlan Platt
Michael D Pratt
Thomas Pogue
Barry W Poulson
Edward Price
Robert Pulsinelli
Raymond Raab
Roger Riefler
Terry Ridgeway
Mario Rizzo
Morgan Reynolds
Simon Rottenberg
Randy Rucker
Richard Saba
Todd Sandler
David Saurman
Mark Schmitz
Robert Sexton
William Shughart
Robert J Staaf
Thomas Stimson
Wendell Sweetser
Mark Thornton
Mark Toma
David G Tuerck
Richard Vedder
Bruce Vermeullen
Richard Wagner
J Keith Watson
Burton Weisbrod
Walter E Williams
Thomas L Wyrick
Bruce Yandle
Boon Yoon
Richard O Zerbe

 

 

OPINION ONLY

Mario J Rizzo     [Prof]    

— Professor Mario Rizzo is on the list of cash-for-comments economists, but there is no record of him actively providing witness or op-ed services to the tobacco industry. —  

Tobacco lobbyist James Savarese and Professor Robert Tollison of George Mason University collaborated in the 1980s to provide the tobacco industry, through the Tobacco Institute, with networks of academics in various disciplines who would be willing to write and sprout propaganda material ... always provided the payments for these services were not directly traceable back to the Institute or to any of the cigarette companies.

The idea was simply that these academic 'sleepers' would be available on a cash-for-services basis when needed to counter attempts to increase excise taxes or to ban public smoking ... or just to appear as 'independent experts' at Congressional hearings and promote the industry causes. These were the economic equivalents of the 'WhiteCoat' scientists.


Associate Professor Mario Rizzo teaches Austrian economics, law and economics, ethics and economics, behavioral economics and paternalism at the New York University. In his spare time, he briefly signed up to service the tobacco industry — but didn't appear to do anything.

His expertise is in the Chicago/Hayek 'Austrian' school of economics, and his grants come from the far right-wing sources you would expect. He lists:

Funding from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Bradley Foundation, Earhart Foundation, Smith-Richardson Foundation, Fred C. Koch Foundation, Pfizer, Inc., Chase Bank, Inc., and others.

See the Tobacco Institute's list of cash-for-comments economists


Some key documents

• Note also Dr Richmond ('Ray') Rizzo, Vice President of Region II, Tobacco Institute.

• Mario Rizzo's C/V See NY Uni C/V


1948 Jul 6: Born


1970: BA (Econ.), Fordham University,


1973: MA (Econ.), University of Chicago,


1977: PhD (Econ.), University of Chicago,


1987 Feb 6: James Savarese has finalised his list of compliant economists, and sends them to Susan Stuntz at the Tobacco Institute. It lists all the familiar cash-for-comment economists. [See hotlinks on left]

Now well-established network economists:
Lee Anderson, Terry Anderson, Dom Armentano, Cecil Bohanon, Thomas Borcherding, Henry Butler, Jeffrey R Clark, John David, Allan Dalton, Arthur Denzau, Clifford Dobitz, Robert Ekelund, David Gay, Anne Harper-Fender, Dennis Hein, John Howe, William Hunter, Joe Jadlow, Michael Kurth, Suuner LaCroix, Dwight Lee, C Matt Lindsay, Dennis Logue, Chuck Mason [Masen], Charles Maurice, Fred McChesney, Robert McMahon, Arthur Mead, Wm Mitchell, Allen Parkman, William Peterson, Thomas Pogue, Barry Poulson, Raymond Raab, Simon Rottenberg, Mark Schmitz, Richard Vedder, Richard Wagner
plus four new ones.
  • Greg Neihaus, [aka Neuhaus]
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Mario Rizzo,
    New York University NY
  • Roger Riefler,
    Uni of Nebraska, Lincoln
  • Boon Yoon,
    State Uni of New York, Binghamton, NY



1987 Feb 6: This is the Tollison/Saverese network list of economists recruited until the end of 1986. It has 64 names, but it still doesn't cover all 50 States. Some States have two or three network members, so newspapers [and sometimes Congressmen] need to be specified for each member to ensure there is no accidental duplication.

    Telephone numbers (office and home) are often included in case an urgent op-ed or ordinance hearing is needed. These are grouped by State:
   

NEW YORK
Professor Mario Rizzo
New York University
269 Mercer Street Room 700 New York, New York 10003 212-598-7516

Professor Boon Yoon
Department of Economics, State University of New York
- Binghamton Binghamton, New York 13901 607-777-2689


1987 Feb 11: Jeff Ross of Ogilvy and Mather has written to the Tobacco Institute sending them the "final list of economists" who have agreed to write op-ed articles and appear as witnesses in defense of public smoking.

    They now have 41 states covered, with both Mario Rizzo and Boon Yooin available for New York.



To his credit, Rizzo no longer appears in the tobacco archives, or in the cash-for-comment economists list. He must have had second thoughts..


2010 May 20: Like many Public Choice economists, his angle is as much political as it is economic. Most of them focuses a lot on "Ethics" in order to add another philosphical dimension.

    Here are Mario Rizzo's arguments against the 'welfare state'.

WORTH READING








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