David Richard Henderson Biography
David Richard Henderson is a Canadian-born American economist and novelist who served on President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 until 1984.
David Richard Henderson Age
David was born on 21 November 1950, in Canada. He is 73 years old as of November 2023.
David Richard Henderson Education
Henderson received his B.Sc. (1970) from the University of Winnipeg, followed by an M.A. and Ph.D. (1976) in Economics from UCLA. Henderson’s scientific interests include microeconomics, cost-benefit analysis, health economics, energy economics, and tax economics.
David Richard Henderson Wife
He is confidential when it comes to matters concerning his personal life. He has not yet shared his relationship or marital status with the public.
David Richard Henderson Career
Henderson, a friend of economist Milton Friedman since their first meeting at the University of Chicago in 1970, followed his advice to “make politics an avocation, not a vocation,” and pursued a career path that led him receiving a Ph.D. in economics. Henderson first taught at the University of Rochester’s Graduate School of Management from 1975 until 1979. Next, he worked at the Cato Institute in San Francisco from 1979 to 1980, followed by a brief stay at Santa Clara University from 1980 to 1981. Henderson joined President Reagan’s administration in 1982 as a senior economist with the Council of Economic Advisers, where he served as senior economist for health policy from 1982 to 1984 and senior economist for energy policy from 1983 to 1984.
Henderson and Bryan Caplan write about socioeconomic issues on the blog EconLog, which was named one of The Wall Street Journal’s top 25 economics blogs in 2009. Henderson has written articles for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Public Interest, and The Christian Science Monitor. Henderson was the economics editor for the National Review, the “Wartime Economist” for Antiwar.com, and a contributing editor to Reason magazine. is a Senior Fellow at Vancouver’s Fraser Institute. He has appeared on C-SPAN, The O’Reilly Factor, CNN, MSNBC, RT, the Jim Lehrer Newshour, and the John Stossel TV show, as well as several radio shows and interviews with the BBC, KQED-FM, NPR, and local radio affiliates.
Henderson has been to Washington, D.C. to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Several of his research publications have published in scholarly journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, The Independent Review, Cato Journal, Regulation, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, The Energy Journal, and Contemporary Economic Policy.
David Richard Henderson Awards
Rear Admiral John Jay Schieffelin Award for Excellence in Instruction at the Naval Postgraduate School, 1997 Louis D. Liskin Award for Excellence in Teaching, June 2003, June 2004, and June 2007, Graduate School of Business and Public Policy
Richard Henderson Net Worth
Richard has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.