I just learned from Condi Rice yesterday that my long-time Hoover Institution colleague and long-time friend Tom Moore has died. He died on August 23.

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2024-10-30 17:30:06

I just learned from Condi Rice yesterday that my long-time Hoover Institution colleague and long-time friend Tom Moore has died. He died on August 23. He was 93.

Tom was an excellent economist. He wrote the article titled “Trucking Deregulation” in The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics, 1993, which later, after the rights reverted to me, became The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Then, when I put together the second edition of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Tom wrote an update titled “Surface Transportation Deregulation.”

Tom was one of the early advocates of deregulation. At a forum on inflation held by President Ford in 1974, Tom circulated a statement calling for deregulation of transportation, airlines, energy, and a number of other sectors. (I’m going by memory here. The copy he gave me was destroyed in my 2007 office fire.) As I recall, he got the vast majority of economists, a group that included many Democrats as well as Republicans, to sign the statement.

Tom also wrote, for the second edition of the Concise Encyclopedia, the article “Global Warming: A Balance Sheet.” I reread his piece as background to this post. I find heartening how well some of his analysis holds up almost 20 years after he wrote.