John Lott (econometricist)
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| Native name | John Richard Lott, Jr. |
| Born | May 8, 1958 |
| Website | http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/ |
| Institutions | University of Chicago, Yale University, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, College Park, American Enterprise Institute |
| Field | Economics |
| Alma mater | UCLA |
John Richard Lott, Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland, College Park, and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. As of 2016, he is a columnist for FoxNews.com and the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit he founded in 2013. Lott holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.
He has written for both academic and popular publications. Lott is a frequent writer of op-eds, and has written various books, his most recent one (as of 2016) being The War on Guns. His past books include More Guns, Less Crime, The Bias Against Guns, and Freedomnomics.
He is best known as an advocate in the gun rights debate, particularly his arguments against restrictions on owning and carrying guns. In 2000, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman said that "John Lott has few equals as a perceptive analyst of controversial public policy issues."Newsweek referred to Lott as "The Gun Crowd's Guru."
John Lott studied economics at UCLA, receiving his B.A. in 1980, M.A. in 1982, and Ph.D. in 1984. Lott has held positions in law and economics at several institutions, including the Yale Law School, Stanford, UCLA, the Wharton Business School, Texas A&M University, and Rice University. Lott was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission (1988–1989). He spent five years as a visiting professor (1994–95) and as a fellow (1995–99) at the University of Chicago. Lott was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (2001–2006). He left AEI for SUNY Binghamton. From July 2007 to 2010, Lott was a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland Foundation at the University of Maryland, College Park and lectured on law and economics.
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