Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
Robert L. Bradley, Jr. (born June 17, 1955) is CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research; an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.; and a visiting fellow of the Institute for Economic Affairs in London. Bradley received a B.A. in economics from Rollins College, where he won the S. Truman Olin award for top student in economics. He attended Rollins on a full athletic scholarship and was captain and MVP of the men's tennis team in 1977. He went on to receive an M.A. in economics from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. in political economy (with distinction) from International College, Los Angeles. Chair of his dissertation committee was Murray Rothbard.[1]
Bradley has been a senior research fellow at the University of Houston and is currently senior research fellow (honorary) at the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Bradley received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award in 2002 for his work on free market approaches to energy sustainability.[2][3]
Bradley spent nearly 20 years in the business world, including 16 years at Enron, where for the last seven years he was corporate director for public policy analysis and speechwriter for Kenneth L. Lay.[4] His opposition to the company's so-called "green" energy policy is recounted on his web site Political Capitalism.org.
Bradley is the author of seven books on energy history and policy, including The Mirage of Oil Protection (1989);Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience (2 vols.: 1996), which has been called "a landmark in regulatory studies";[5] Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability (2000); Climate Alarmism Reconsidered (2003); and (with Richard Fulmer) Energy: The Master Resource (2004), which Milton Friedman described as a "splendid" book that "effectively debunks the widespread predictions of energy doom."[6]
Bradley has edited two autobiographies: Done In Oil by J. Howard Marshall II (Texas A&M University Press, 1994) and Everyone Wins! A Life in Free Enterprise by Gordon Cain (Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1997).
Bradley's books and essays deal with the entire spectrum of energy-policy issues, from the origins of electricity- and manufactured-gas regulation in the last century to the Department of Energy's civilian energy programs today. His public-policy approach combines the historical record with market-process economics and libertarian social theory.
Bradley is writing Political Capitalism: A Trilogy, a multi-faceted business history and business best-practices book, whose narrative climaxes with the rise and fall of Enron. Book 1, Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy (2009), was followed by Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political Strategies (2011). Book 3, Enron and Ken Lay: An American Tragedy, is anticipated for 2013/2014.[7]
In late 2008, Bradley founded the free-market energy and climate blog MasterResource,[8] which surpassed one million views in September 2010. As of February 2012, it was ranked a 'top 100' science blog and a top fifty 'green blog' by Technorati.
Bradley currently lives in Houston, Texas, where he grew up and graduated from The Kinkaid School (class of 1973).
[edit] References
- ^ Robert P. Murphy (August 27, 2011). "Tributes to Murray Rothbard at MasterResource". Mises Economics Blog. Ludwig von Mises Institute. http://blog.mises.org/18235/tributes-to-murray-rothbard-at-masterresource/. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
- ^ "Mitch Daniels to Deliver First Major Speech on Regulatory Reform," press release, Competitive Enterprise Institute, May 17, 2002
- ^ http://cei.org/news-releases/mitch-daniels-deliver-first-major-speech-regulatory-reform
- ^ "The Robert Bradley Interview: Enron and Political Entrepreneurship," Kaizen, Issue 13, August 2010, pp. 1-8, http://www.ethicsandentrepreneurship.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/k13-Bradley-web.pdf
- ^ Bradley's Magnum Opus on Oil and Gas Published," Cato Policy Report, November/December 1995, http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-nd-rb.htm
- ^ "Energy Policy 101," Cato book forum, January 2005, http://www.org/event.php?eventid=1786
- ^ Scrivener Publishing, Capitalism at Work, http://www.scrivenerpublishing.com/cart/title.php?id=54; Edison to Enron, http://www.scrivenerpublishing.com/cart/title.php?id=55
- ^ http://www.masterresource.org MasterResource
[edit] External links
- Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy
- Political Capitalism: Theory, History, Policy
- Institute for Energy Research
- "The Fall of Ken Lay: An Interview with Robert L. Bradley Jr.," The New Individualist, April 2006
- "Renewable Energy: Not Cheap, Not 'Green,'" by Robert L. Bradley, Jr., Cato Institute, August 27, 1997
- Global warming policy perils By Robert L. Bradley Jr. - January 17, 2007
