{"id":19088,"date":"2018-09-24T16:47:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.pdt\/2018\/09\/dr-paul-craig-roberts-georgia-tech\/"},"modified":"2023-12-09T00:18:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:18:11","slug":"dr-paul-craig-roberts-georgia-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phideltatheta.org\/news-stories\/dr-paul-craig-roberts-georgia-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Paul Craig Roberts – Georgia Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Paul Craig Roberts, Georgia Tech \u201961, <\/em>is an American economist, columnist, blogger, and former civil servant. He served during the Reagan administration (1981) as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. Brother Roberts has been awarded Who\u2019s Who in the World\u2019s top honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1975 to 1978, Roberts served on the congressional staff. As economic counsel to Congressman Jack Kemp, he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill (which became the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981). He served as economic counsel to Senator Orrin Hatch, The Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley offered him an editorial slot. He wrote for the WSJ until 1980. He was a senior fellow in political economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, then part of Georgetown University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After his time in government he turned to journalism, holding positions of editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week, the Scripps Howard News Service as well as contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roberts was professor of business administration and professor of economics at George Mason University and was the inaugural William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at Georgetown University, serving for 12 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1993 to 1996, he was a distinguished fellow at the Cato Institute. He also was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The New Color Line <\/em>(1995), Roberts and co-author Lawrence M. Stratton argue that the Civil Rights Act was subverted by the bureaucrats who applied it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was awarded the US Treasury’s Meritorious Service Award for “outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, the Mexican Press Club honored Roberts with its International Award For Excellence In Journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his time in the Reagan administration, Roberts became known as Washington DC’s “most zealous” proponent of supply-side economics, and his concern about U.S. budget deficits led him into conflict with other Reagan-era officials such as Martin Feldstein and David Stockman. He is a critic of the Federal Reserve System and central banking in general. He has also promoted conspiracy theories that the 9\/11 attacks and the Charlie Hebdo attack were false flag operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has written or co-written 12 books, contributed chapters to numerous books, and published many articles in scholarly journals. His writings have also appeared in a variety of print and online publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n