Daniel Kuehn
Daniel Kuehn is a Senior Research Associate in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute. He teaches cost-benefit analysis at George Washington University. Daniel’s research focuses on labor economics and employment policy, particularly apprenticeship training and workforce development. He also studies and publishes in the history of economics, particularly the life and thought of James M. Buchanan and Warren Nutter. He holds a PhD in Economics from American University, an MPP in labor market policy from George Washington University, and a BA in Economics and Sociology from the College of William and Mary.
Economic History Series
The Chicago Planning Program and the Interdisciplinary Tradition of the Chicago School
The Chicago Planning Program, an interdisciplinary program that operated at the University of Chicago between 1947 and 1956, is an often-neglected part...
Aaron Director
Aaron Director and the Empirical Foundation for the Chicago Attitude on Antitrust
Empirical evidence, not just disembodied theory, was an important building block of Director’s view that competition could defeat concentration, writes Daniel Kuehn.
Editor's note: Aaron...
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