Michael Darby

Michael Rucker Darby was born in 1945 in Dallas, Texas.

Education:
 * A.B., Senior Fellow, Dartmouth College (1967)
 * M.A., Economics, University of Chicago (1968)
 * Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago (1970)

He was from 1964 to 1982 Vice President and Director at Paragon Industries, a company founded in 1948 by Frances and J.J. Darby. 

Michael Darby is Professor of Policy. He currently serves as the Warren C. Cordner Professor of Money and Financial Markets in the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management and in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and as Director of the John M. Olin Center for Policy in the Anderson School. Concurrently he holds appointments as Chairman of The Dumbarton Group, Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Adjunct Scholar with the American Enterprise Institute. In 1977/78 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.

Both Michael Darby and Thomas Hopkins were on the 'Academic Advisory Board' of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's Center on Regulation and Economic Growth. Merrick Carey (then president of AdTI) wrote on February 8, 1994 to Philip Morris that they planned to immediately activate their key Advisory Board members for a pro-tobacco campaign. He specifically mentioned their 'Center on Regulation and Economic Growth'.

Books & Monographs

 * Michael R. Darby, "Macroeconomics: The Theory of Income, Employment, and the Price Level", McGraw-Hill, 1976, ISBN 0070153469
 * Michael Parkin, Michael R. Darby, "Have Controls Ever Worked? The Post-War Record", The Fraser Institute, 1976, ISBN 0889750033
 * Michael R. Darby, "The Effects of Social Security on Income and the Capital Stock", American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1979, ISBN 0844733296
 * Michael R. Darby, "Intermediate Macroeconomics", McGraw-Hill, 1979, ISBN 0070153485
 * Michael R. Darby, James R. Lothian, and Arthur E. Gandolfi, Anna J. Schwartz, Alan C. Stockman, "The International Transmission of Inflation, A National Bureau of Economic Research Monograph", University of Chicago Press, 1983, ISBN 0226136426
 * Michael R. Darby, "Labor Force, Employment, and Productivity in Historical Perspective", Monograph and Research Series, No. 37, Los Angeles: U.C.L.A. Institute of Industrial Relations, 1984. ISBN 0892151218
 * Michael R. Darby and Michael T. Melvin, "Intermediate Macroeconomics", Scott Foresman, 1986, ISBN 067315999X
 * Michael R. Darby, John E. Anderson, "Reducing Poverty in America: Views and Approaches", Thousand Oaks, 1996, ISBN 0761900071

Related Links

 * "Nomination of Michael Rucker Darby To Be an Under Secretary of Commerce", March 9, 1989
 * "Biography of Michael R. Darby", January 22, 2003
 * "Faculty Biography, Michael Darby", Anderson School at UCLA
 * "Michael Darby", UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research
 * "Michael R. Darby", California Report on the Environment for Science and Technology
 * "Michael R. Darby", National Bureau of Economic Research