Dr. Richard Vedder - Director
Richard Vedder studies higher education financing, labor economics, immigration, government fiscal policy and income inequality. A distinguished professor of economics at Ohio University, he is the author of several books, including The American Economy in Historical Perspective, Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America (with Lowell Gallaway), Going Broke by Degree, and the forthcoming The Wal-Mart Revolution: How Big Box Stores Benefit Consumers, Workers, and the Economy (with Wendell Cox). Dr. Vedder earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Illinois.