Highlights
& Quotes
Anderson has been a central conservative political figure for decades, working on the campaigns of various Republican presidential candidates and as a scholar at several right-wing think tanks. He has authored or coauthored numerous books on urban renewal, welfare reform, the military draft, and Ronald Reagan. (1) Today, Allen is one of eight Hoover Institution affiliates serving on the Pentagon's oft-criticized private think tank, the Defense Policy Board.
While working for then-presidential candidate Reagan in 1979, Anderson helped generate ideas for what would later be dubbed the Star Wars missile defense system. Writes one historian of the Reagan era: "In the summer of 1979, .Reagan made a trip, with one of his top aides, Hoover Institution economist Martin Anderson, to the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) post in Colorado, where he witnessed a special demonstration of this center's tracking and display capabilities. . On the plane ride back to California, Reagan and [Anderson] . talked about the apparent terrible vulnerability of the United States, against which we, seemingly, were helpless. Soon after returning to California, Anderson . was instructed to prepare a set of papers which would establish Reagan's position on strategic defense for the upcoming 1980 campaign. One of these reports presented three major options - first, following Jimmy Carter's early policy of relying on good Soviet intentions ('dangerous folly' in Anderson's opinion); second, a massive American arms buildup (which Anderson felt was 'apt to frighten as many people as it consoles'); and third, to build a radically new, 'preventative' air intercept defense system, much like Star Wars as it later became known." (4)
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Institutional
Affiliations
Hoover
Institution: Senior fellow (1)
Nightly
Business Report : TV Commentator, 1997-present
Ludwig
von Mises Institute (Classical liberalism and libertarian political
theory): Adjunct Scholar
Republican
National Convention : Delegate, 1992,
1996, 2000
George
W. Bush Presidential Campaign : Policy Adviser, 2000
Bob
Dole Presidential Campaign : Policy Adviser, 1996
Pete
Wilson Presidential Campaign : Policy Adviser, 1995
Ronald
Reagan Presidential Foundation : Trustee, 1985-90
Ronald
Reagan Presidential Campaign : Senior Policy Advisor, 1976
and 1980
Committee
on the Present Danger : Member, 1977-91
Rockefeller's
Commission on Critical Choices for Americans : Member, 1973-75
Richard
Nixon Presidential Campaign : Director of Research, 1968
Government
Service
Defense
Policy Board : Current member
National
Commission on the Cost of Higher Education : Member, 1997-98
California
Governor's Council of Economic Advisers : 1993-98
President's
General Advisory Committee on Arms Control : Member, 1987-93
President's
Economic Policy Advisory Board : Member, 1982-1989
President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board : Member, 1982-1985
Reagan
Administration : Assistant to the President of the United
States for Policy Development, 1981-82
Nixon
Administration : Special Consultant to the President of
the United States for Systems Analysis, 1970-71; Special Assistant
to the President of the United States, 1969-1970
Arms
Security Agency : Second Lieutenant, 1958-59 (1)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Federal
Home Loan Bank of San Francisco : Public
Interest Director, 1972-79
Columbia
University Graduate School of Business : Associate Professor
of Finance, 1965-68; Assistant Professor of Finance, 1962-65
Harvard
University and MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies : Research
Fellow, 1961-62
Dartmouth
College Thayer School of Engineering : Assistant to the Dean,
1959
Education
Dartmouth
College : B.A., summa cum laude, 1957; M.S. in Engineering
and Business Administration, 1958
Massachusetts Institute of Technology : Ph.D. in Industrial
Management, 1962
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