Dolores T. Martin

Dolores (Dee) Tremewan Martin is an academic economist who has worked extensively for Big Buisness, including the tobacco industry, as a witness and academic lobbyist.

She was a key member of the Committee on Taxation and Economic Growth which helped large corporations and trade associations counter tax increases, and also a leading member of the Tobacco Institute's clandestine Economists' network -- a group of academics who helped the tobacco industry fight proposed tax increase on cigarettes, and tried to counter the declining acceptability of public and workplace smoking.

Academic career

 * B.S. degree in business administration from the University of Nevada
 * M.A. in economics from the University of Nevada
 * Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
 * 1984 Professor in public finance, University of Nebraska
 * Since March 1, 2001 she has been the dean of the Eastern Washington University College of Business and Public Administration.

Dolores Martin & Tobacco
Dolores Martin was a professor of economics at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln when she became involved in pro-tobacco activities for the Tobacco Institute (TI) through Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) in 1984. O&M hired her to provide anti-excise testimony.

Tobacco industry documents show that Patricia Militia from O&M reported to Michael Brozek (TI regional vice president) on June 6, 1984 that: "'Dolores Martin, a public finance professor from the University of Nebraska, has agreed to deliver testimony in Minneapolis. I will have more information about her as well as her testimony in the next few days. I'll send it to you as soon as I receive it. I will also forward the testimony for the business spokesperson you identify.'"

Two weeks later Patricia Militia wrote to Michael Kerrigan (TI Vice President) "'So far, one hearing has been held in the Northern Sector: in Minneapolis on Tuesday, June 19. Dolores Martin, an economics professor at the University of Nebraska, presented testimony at that hearing. We arranged interviews for her with KSTP-AM (radio) and KSTP-TV (both are St. Paul stations). A copy of her testimony and a biographical sketch are attached.'"

Later that year long-term tobacco lobbyist and recruiter of academics, Robert D. Tollison established, with Dolores Martin and three other economists (Harold M. Hochman, Fred McChesney and Thomas E. Borcherding), the Committee on Taxation and Economic Growth which published excerpts of those five testimonies.

In January 1985 her name was on a list of economists who could "assist TI on the federal cigarette excise tax issue"  although it was written as 'Professor D e lores Martin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska'. In a list of April 1986, her name was still there but no longer as a professor in Nebraska
 * "Delores Martin Advisory [Commission] on Intergovernmental Relations" with the address of ACIR in Washington.

On later lists her name was gone.

Publications

 * Barry Keating, Dolores Tremewan Martin, "Cases and Problems in Political Economy," McGraw-Hill, January 1978, ISBN 0070451737
 * Dolores Tremewan Martin, Richard E. Wagner, "The Institutional Framework for Municipal Incorporation: An Economic Analysis of Local Agency Formation Commissions in California," University of Chicago Press, October 1978
 * Harold Hochman, Thomas E. Borcherding, Robert Tollison, Fred McChesney, Dolores Martin, "... The US "Deserves to Have a Tax System Which Looks Like Someone Designed it on Purpose.", Committee on Taxation and Economic Growth, September/October 1984
 * Gary M. Anderson, Dolores T. Martin, "The Public Domain and Nineteenth Century Transfer Policy," Cato Institute, 1987
 * Robert Stein, Dolores Martin, "Contracting for Municipal Public Services," ACIR Working Paper, 1987
 * Dolores Tremewan Martin, Robert M. Stein, "An Empirical Analysis of Contracting out Local Government Services" chapter 7 in the book "Privatizing the United States Justice System", McFarland & Co, 1992, ISBN 0899507042

Related Links

 * "Dolores Martin Is New Dean of the EWU College of Business & Public Administration," Eastern Washington University, January 26, 2001