David R. Henderson

On February 3, 2014, Henderson was invited by Naval War College to speak at a special morning session at the Hoover Institution, where he chose the topic of making the case for a non-interventionist foreign policy as an economist.

Henderson earned his B.Sc (1970) from the University of Winnipeg, followed by his M.A. and Ph.D.(1976) in Economics from UCLA. Henderson's areas of scholarly interest include microeconomics, cost–benefit analysis, health economics, energy economics, and the economics of taxation.

A friend of economist Milton Friedman since they first met at the University of Chicago in 1970, Henderson took his advice to, "make politics an avocation, not a vocation," pursuing a career course that led to earning a Ph.D. in economics. Henderson first taught at the University of Rochester, Graduate School of Management, from 1975 to 1979. Next, he took a position at San Francisco-based Cato Institute from 1979-1980, and then a short stint at Santa Clara University from 1980 to 1981. In 1982 Henderson joined President Reagan's administration as a senior economist with the Council of Economic Advisers, serving as senior economist for health policy from 1982 to 1984 and then senior economist for energy policy from 1983 to 1984. Henderson is one of the main economists blogging on socioeconomic issues at EconLog, along with Bryan Caplan, which The Wall Street Journal has designated as one of the top 25 economics blogs in the country.

David R. Henderson (born November 21, 1950) is a Canadian-born American economist and author who moved to the United States in 1972 and became a U.S. citizen in 1986, serving on President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984. A research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution since 1990, he took a teaching position with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in 1984, and is now a full professor of economics.