Richard B. McKenzie

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Professor
Paul Merage School of Business
Walter B. Gerken Chair of Enterprise and Society
Paul Merage School of Business
PH.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U
Phone: (949) 824-2604
Fax: (949) 824-8469
Email: mckenzie@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
430 GSM
Mail Code: 3125
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Professor McKenzie is a nationally recognized authority on public policy, the global economy and economic changes in the 1980's.
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Research Abstract
Professor McKenzie, who joined the Graduate School faculty in the fall of 1991, is the author of more than 18 books, the latest of which is Quicksilver Capital: How the Rapid Movement of Wealth Has Changed the World (1991). His most widely recognized and used book is The New World of Economics, which has between adopted in most of the country's major colleges and universities and has been translated into five foreign languages. Professor McKenzie's research covers many public policy areas but has been focused in recent years on the impact of global economic forces on businesses and governments, the safety effects of airline deregulation, and the impact of the growth in the elderly population on Social Security and Medicare.

Professor McKenzie has written a large number of pamphlets, chapters for larger works, and scholarly articles for a variety of academic journals. His columns and general interest articles have appeared frequently in most of the country's major regional newspapers and, from time to time, in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, National Review Office and Forbes. He is an adjunct fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis
Publications
The 1980s: What Went Right in America (San Francisco: Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, forthcoming in March 1993).
Quicksilver Capital: How the Rapid Movement of Wealth Has Changed the World (with Dwight Lee; New York: Free Press, Inc., March 1991).Were the 1980s a 'Decade of Greed'? The Public Interest, January 1992, pp. 91-96.
Last updated
02/25/2002