Jeffrey Clark

Dr. Jeffrey R. Clark is also known as Jeff Clark or Jeff Ray Clark.

Education: 1970: B.S. Virginia Commonwealth University 1972: M.A. Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1974: Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Before he began working at the University of Tennessee-Chattanoogna (UTC) he had several positions like:
 * Joint Council on Economic Education in New York
 * professor and chairman of the Department of Economics and Finance (Samuel J. Silberman College of Business Administration) at Fairleight Dickinson University (FDU), New Jersey
 * Tom E. Hendrix Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee at Martin (UTM)
 * research fellow at Princeton University

Tobacco Industry
Jeff Clark wrote in 1987 when he was a professor at FDU several pro-tobacco articles in newspapers about the influence of tax on tobacco on the local economy.

On the list of 'Communications Activities in January 1990' of the Tobacco Institute is written: "Editorials, written by economists Richard K. Vedder of Ohio University, Dominick Armentano of the University of Hartford, and J.R. Clark of the University of Tennessee, appeared. These editorials, opposing excise taxes and discussing "user fees," appeared in .."

In the Tobacco Institute's "Public Affairs Management Progress Report" of February 1990 they wrote on page 3: "Several new excise tax projects progressed in February, ... These undertakings supplement the 1990 tax program and are an effort to aggressively bolster anti-excise tax arguments and maintain a 'fair taxation' environment. The 1990 op-ed program involving consulting economists' articles on the excise tax and 'user fee' question moved forward last month. We reviewed additional draft articles and returned them to the authors to seek placement. Meanwhile, the previously cleared op-eds continue to appear in print. Recently published articles include those by J.R. Clark (with placements in five different Tennessee newspapers); ...' (emphasis added)" In that same document they mentioned that the year-to-date expenses for the 'prof. fees' were $90,768 but with the remark that "Billing from some consultants will appear in upcoming months".

In July 1990 Jeffrey Clark was mentioned in another internal document of the Tobacco Institute as one of the consulting economists who are "weighing in on the federal budget debate with a new series of anti-excise tax op-eds to be placed in newspapers in key congressional districts."

Jeff Clark was a professor of Economics at UTC when he was a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the pro-tobacco junk science report Science, economics, and environmental policy: a critical examination published on August 11, 1994, by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI). Also Richard Vedder was a member of that Academic Advisory Board.

His biographical information says about Mr. Clark"'His consulting experience includes Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, universities, and publishing firms as well as performing litigation support for law firms in personal injury, wrongful death, business evaluations and matrimonial cases.' (emphasis added)"

His former colleague Judy Ann Sandefer wrote about him"'A self-made millionaire, he was and is very different from anyone I have ever known, ..' (emphasis added)"

Dwight R. Lee
He wrote together with Dwight R. Lee (antoher member of that Academic Advisory Board) several articles:


 * Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, "Public Choice and Cognitive Dissonance," The Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, October 1994
 * Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, 1996. "Sentencing Laffer curves, political myopia, and prison space" SocialScience Quarterly 77 (2): 245-55.
 * Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, 1997. "Too safe to be safe," Eastern Economic Journal 23 (Spring): 127-37
 * Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, "Distrust and Verify", The Freeman, February 1999
 * Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, "The Optimal Trust in Government," Eastern Economic Journal Vol. 27, no. 1, Winter 2001, pp. 19-34,

The UTC received in 1998 $4,000 from the Earhart Foundation with the comment:"Jeff Ray Clark Department of Economics During the summer of 1998 to prepare one or more journal articles on the topic 'Optimal Trust in Government.'"

Jeffrey Clark was the President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE).

Current Positions:
 * board of the Palmer R. Chitester Fund
 * board of the William B. Cockroft Foundation
 * Scott L. Probasco, Jr. Chair of Private Enterprise at UTC
 * member of the Mont Pelerin Society

Books

 * James Gwartney, J.R. Clark, Richard Stroup, "Essentials of Economics", 1st edition 1982, Harcourt College Pub, 2nd edition, March 1, 1985 ISBN 0123110351
 * J. Holton Wilson, J.R. Clark, "Economics: The Science of Cost, Benefit, and Choice," 1st edition, 1983, 2nd edition, 1987, 3rd edition, 1992, 4th edition, 1997, 5th edition, 2000. ''South-Western Publishing Co., ISBN 0538614005
 * J.R. Clark, Clifford F. Thies, Holton Wilson, Saul Barr, "Macroeconomics for Managers", Pearson Higher Education, December, 1990, ISBN 0205128718
 * Jeff Ray Clark, J. Holten Wilson, "Survey of Economics ", South-Western College Pub, September 13, 1996, ISBN 0538846771

Related Links

 * Dwight R. Lee, Jeffrey R. Clark, "Distrust and Verify", The Freeman, Februari 1999
 * Stephen Shmanske, "Enrollment and Curriculum: A Laffer Curve Analysis", Journal of Economic Education, winter 2002
 * "Biographical Information", University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2003
 * "J.R. Clark", University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2003

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