Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Nationality	American
Education	Swarthmore (B.A), Oxford University (M.Phil)
Occupation	Economist
Employer(s)	The Manhattan Institute, e21
Agent	Economics

Diana Furchtgott-Roth (born April 4, 1958) is an economist. She is also a columnist for RealClearMarkets.com, the Washington Examiner, MarketWatch, Tax Notes, and is the director of Economics21 (e21).

Education & Career

Furchtgott-Roth received her Bachelor of Arts in economics from Swarthmore College. After graduating, she went on to get her M.Phil in economics from Oxford University.

Furchtgott-Roth was an economist on the staff of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1986–87. During 1991–93, she was deputy executive director of the White House Domestic Policy Council and associate director of the Office of Policy Planning under President George H. W. Bush. In 2001–02, Furchtgott-Roth was the chief of staff of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. Furchtgott-Roth was an economist on the staff of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1986–87. Furchtgott-Roth is currently a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and director of e21.

Views

She is an advocate of putting longshore unions and employers under the Railway Labor Act instead of the National Labor Relations Act, and argues that raising the minimum wage would do more harm than good.

Bibliography

Women’s Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (1999)

The Feminist Dilemma: When Success Is Not Enough (2001)

How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America (2010)

Regulating to Disaster: How Green Jobs Policies are Damaging America's Economy (2012)

Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America’s Young (2015) (co-authored with Manhattan Institute fellow, Jared Meyer)