David R. Henderson
David R. Henderson | |
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Henderson in 2011 | |
| Born | David Richard Henderson November 21, 1950 Boissevain, Manitoba, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian-born American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles (MA) (PhD) University of Winnipeg (B.Sc) |
| Influences | Armen Alchian, Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Ayn Rand |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Institutions | Naval Postgraduate School |
David Richard Henderson (born November 21, 1950) is a Canadian-born American economist and author who moved to the United States in 1972 and became a U.S. citizen in 1986, serving on President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984. A research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution since 1990, he took a teaching position with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in 1984, and is now an emeritus professor of economics.