Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D.
Director of the Criminal Justice Center
National Center for Policy Analysis

Currently on leave, serving as chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor.
Former visiting scholar for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.
Author, The Reynolds Report, an annual study of the time criminals can expect to spend in prison for their crimes.

Published more than 60 articles in academic journals. Authored five books including Crime by Choice (1985) and Economics of Labor (1995), and edited W.H. Hutt: An Economist for the Long Run (1986).

Recent NCPA works include Does Punishment Deter Crime?, Factories Behind Bars, Texas Crime and Punishment in the 1990s and Using the Private Sector to Deter Crime.

Board member of the Journal of Labor Research and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

Affiliated with Mont Pèlerin Society, Landrum Society in Texas, American Economic Association, and the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.

Testifies before congressional committees on various issues.

His opinion pieces and ideas have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News and other papers across the country. He has appeared on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC's Hardball with Chis Matthews, CNN's Both Sides with Jesse Jackson, FOX News Channel and C-Span.

Regular columnist for The Heartland Institute's bi-monthly magazine Intellectual Ammunition.

Received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1971.