Morgan O. Reynolds is the former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the

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in Dallas, Texas, and a retired professor of economics at

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. He served as chief economist for the

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in 2001–2002, during

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's first term. A member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Reynolds was one of the first prominent government officials to claim that 9/11 was an inside job. Reynolds received his Ph.D. from the

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in 1971. His books include ''Public Expenditures, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income: The United States, 1950, 1961, 1970'' (with

Eugene Smolensky Eugene Smolensky is an economist and emeritus professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, where he served as Dean from 1988 to 1997. He is Vice President of the International Institute of Public Finance an ...

, 1977), ''Power and Privilege: Labor Unions in America'' (1984), ''Economics of Labor'' (1995), and ''Making America Poorer: The Cost of Labor Law'' (1987).Reviews of ''Making America Poorer: The Cost of Labor Law'': * * *

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