Kosters, Marvin H(oward)

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KOSTERS, Marvin H(oward)

KOSTERS, Marvin H(oward). American, b. 1933. Genres: Economics. Career: RAND Corp., Santa Monica, CA, economist, 1965-69; President's Council of Economic Advisers, Washington, DC, senior economist, 1969-71; U.S. Cost of Living Council, Washington, DC, associate director for economic policy, 1971-74; American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, DC, resident scholar, 1974; Office of the Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs, Washington, DC, staff member, 1974-75; American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, director of Center for the Study of Government Regulation, 1976-86, resident scholar and director of economic policy studies, 1987-. U.S. Department of Labor, Manpower Administration, associate administrator for policy, evaluation, and research, 1971, member of Task Force on Economic Adjustment and Worker Dislocation, 1975-76; Civil Aeronautics Board, member of advisory committee on procedural reform, 1975; consultant to U.S. Department of the Treasury and Council on Wage and Price Stability. Teacher at University of Chicago, summers, 1964-65, and University of California, Los Angeles, 1966-69. Publications: (with D. Ahalt) Controls and Inflation: The Economic Stabilization Program in Retrospect, 1975. EDITOR: (with T.B. Clark and J.C. Miller III) Reforming Regulation, 1980; (and contrib.) Workers and Their Wages: Changing Patterns in the United States, 1991; (and author of intro) Personal Savings, Consumption, and Tax Policy, 1992; Fiscal Politics and the Budget Enforcement Act, 1992. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to periodicals. Address: 13120 Cedar Ridge Dr, Clifton, VA 20124, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]