Benjamin Zycher, an economist, is a Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress. In addition, he is a member of the advisory boards of the quarterly journal Regulation, USA for Innovation, and Consumer Alert.

Dr. Zycher is a former senior economist at the RAND Corporation, a former vice president for research at the Milken Institute, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Western Economic Association International. He is also a former adjunct professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles and the former editor of the quarterly public policy journal Jobs & Capital. Dr. Zycher was a senior staff economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the first two years of the Reagan Administration. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California Los Angeles (1979) and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California Berkeley (1974).

Dr. Zycher's research focuses on the economic and political effects of regulation, government spending, taxation and counterterrorism public expenditures. He has done considerable work as well on health care policy and the economics of the pharmaceutical sector, and on energy and environmental policy. Dr. Zycher published work on long-term trends in economic performance and military capability, the use of trade policy in pursuit of foreign policy goals, the modern performance of the Chinese economy, and measures of burdensharing within alliances. He is the author of "Defense Economics" and "OPEC" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (forthcoming 2007).

Dr. Zycher is a naturalized citizen of the United States (1956), 56 years of age, married with two children, and lives in Agoura Hills, California.

Select Media:

• WLW's "The Big Show with Bill Cunningham," 10-16-08
• WDAY's "Hot Talk with Scott Hennen", 08-13-07
• WIBA's "Upfront with Vicki McKenna," 01-30-07
• Radio America's "Michael Reagan Show", 1-26-07
• Westwood One's "Phil Valentine Show", 1-26-07
• WTIC's "Mornings with Ray Dunaway and Diane Smith", 1-19-07
• KTEM's "The Lynn Woolley Show", 1-18-07
• KDKA's "NewsRadio with Fred Honsberger", 1-15-07
• KPCC's "AirTalk with Larry Mantle", 1-12-07
• Radio America's "Dateline Washington with Greg Corombos", 1-12-07
• Westwood One's "Jim Bohannan Show", 1-12-07
• NPR's "Marketplace", 01-11-07

Articles/Op-eds

• Drug Development Needs Private Industry Wall Street Journal, 06-28-08
• Democrats' Health Plan Not So Harmless Investor's Business Daily, 02-15-08
• The free lunch never dies The Hill, 11-14-07
• Free Lunch Eternal National Review Online, 10-18-07
• False Accounting And Free Lunches Under A Single-Payer Health System Investor's Business Daily, 10-17-07
• Should the federal government negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies? Medicare Patient Management, July/August 2007
• Drug Imports: The Unappreciated Downside Investor's Business Daily, 05-08-07
• License to Ill National Review Online, 01-11-07
• We oppose negotiations on Medicare Part D drug prices The Hill, Letter to the Editor, 01-10-07
• Prescription drug costs Washington Times, 12-27-06
• The Human Cost of Drug Price Negotiations RealClearPolitics.com, 11-29-06
• Getting Off the Latest Beltway Bandwagon: Why Conventional Wisdom on Drug Marketing Is Wrong Medical Progress Today, 10-20-06
• A bad plan for prescription drugs The San-Diego Union Tribune, 8-28-06
• The Bureaucratization of Safety and Effectiveness Medical Progress Today, 7-7-06
• The real oil profiteers Orange County Register, 5-7-06
• Policy Forum: The State of the Union Health Care Proposals The Dogs That Yawned Medical Progress Today, 2-7-06

Reports

• The Truth About Drug Innovation: Thirty-Five Summary Case Histories on Private Sector Contributions to Pharmaceutical Science Medical Progress Report 6, June 2008
• Comparing Public and Private Health Insurance: Would a Single-Payer System Save Enough to Cover the Uninsured? Medical Progress Report 5, October 2007
• The Human Cost of Federal Price Negotiations: The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit and Pharmaceutical Innovation Medical Progress Report 3, October 2006
• (Click here to watch this report being discussed on the House Floor, 01-12-07)