John Edward "Jack" Calfee (March 2, 1941 – February 16, 2011) was an American economist and author. He spent 16 years as a resident scholar for the American Enterprise Institute. According to radio host Hugh Hewitt, he was one of the great economic historians and regulatory analysts of the last 50 years. He was known for his work on U.S.

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regulatory policy and the economics of advertising. Calfee worked as special adviser to

Wendy Lee Gramm Wendy Lee Gramm (nee Wendy Lee on January 10, 1945 in Hawaii) is an American economist and former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the Reagan administration. She is also the wife of former United States Senator Phil Gramm. Gra ...

when she was Head of the Bureau of Economics. He had a degree in mathematics from

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, a master's degree in international relations from the

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, and a doctorate in economics from the

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. He died on February 16, 2011, at his home in

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, after a heart attack.

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