Benjamin Zycher is an independent economist in Washington, D.C. and president of Benjamin Zycher Economics Associates, Inc. He is also a member of the advisory board of the quarterly journal Regulation. Formerly, he was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, a member of the board of directors of the Western Economic Association International, an adjunct professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, an adjunct professor of economics and business in the Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics, California State University Channel Islands, and a senior staff economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers for the first two years of the Reagan Administration. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.