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John Cogan

Disciplines:
economics
hoover
finance/budget
entitlements

Summary

American economist at Hoover Institution — former OMB official — author of The High Cost of Good Intentions — the leading analyst of the history of US federal entitlement programs.

Core Contribution

Creates the definitive historical account of federal entitlement expansion — The High Cost of Good Intentions traces how every major entitlement program has expanded well beyond its original mandate through a political process of incremental addition.

Notable Works & Achievements

The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs

Historical Influences

Milton Friedman George Shultz

Intellectual Lineage

Hoover Institution OMBStanford

Contemporaries & Peers

John Taylor Michael Boskin

Minds Influenced

Fiscal policy analysis

Intellectual Posterity

The High Cost of Good Intentions

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