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Dr. Roy Cordato

Email: rcordato@johnlocke.org

Roy Cordato is Vice President for Research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation. From 1993-2000 he served as the Lundy Professor of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in Buies Creek, NC. From 1987-1993 he was Senior Economist at the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation (IRET) in Washington, DC. He has served as full time economics faculty at the University of Hartford and at Auburn University and as adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include a 1992 book, Welfare Economics and Externalities in an Open Ended Universe (Kluwer Academic Publishers republished in 2007 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute). His articles have appeared in a number of economics journals and law reviews in addition to The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Times, Investor's Business Daily, The Journal of Commerce, The Congressional Record, The Orange County Register, The Freeman, Human Events, National Review Online, The Washington Examiner, Tax Notes and many other newspapers and magazines. In 2000 he received the Freedoms Foundation's Leavey Award in Free Enterprise Education. He is also a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and former executive board member of The Association of Private Enterprise Education. Cordato holds an M.A. in urban and regional economics from the University of Hartford and a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. He also holds a Bachelors of Music Education from the Hartt School of Music.


Articles by Dr. Roy Cordato

(8.02.10) Obama Anti-Recession Policies: Bush on Steroids
The policies of the Bush administration did, indeed, get us into this economic disaster. And the intensification of these policies has caused continued economic stagnation and increased unemployment.

(7.30.10) Obama’s Anti-recession Policies: George Bush on Steroids
After promising change, the 44th president simply expanded on his predecessor’s bad economic ideas.

(3.12.10) Seeing Through the Fog Around the Clean Smokestacks Bill
Environmental regulators claim benefits from air-quality legislation approved in 2002, but they've offered no proof.

(1.08.10) Tax Reform Should Honor First Principles
RALEIGH — The General Assembly's Joint Finance Committee on Tax Reform has focused almost exclusively on reforming North Carolina's sales tax. Primarily this has meant extending the current sales tax, which applies only to goods, to services including haircuts and lawn and automotive care.

(12.18.09) Reforming the Sales Tax: Do It Right or Not at All
Fairness and economic efficiency should outweigh potential revenue gains as lawmakers tinker with the tax system.

(9.11.09) Reverse the Status Quo, Liberate Health Care
RALEIGH -- In the health-care debate, genuine reforms require a rejection of government mandates and manipulation.

(9.04.09) Reverse the Status Quo, Liberate Health Care
The president and his supporters want to stick to the same old system involving government manipulation of American health care.

(4.24.09) Environmental Advocacy + High-Priced Lawyers = Unfilled Potholes
Recent revelations about questionable uses of gas-tax proceeds should prompt a thorough examination.

(2.17.09) The Myth of Deficit Spending
We're not shifting costs to our children, but deficit spending does have negative impacts on future freedom.

(1.23.09) Obama’s Stimulus Package: So Much For Change
Instead of change, it looks as if our new president's efforts to stimulate the economy rely on more of the same.

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