Lawrence J. McQuillan

About The Author

Lawrence J. McQuillan is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, and he has served as Chief Economist at the Illinois Policy Institute, Director of Business and Economic Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Founding Publisher and Contributing Editor of Economic Issues. He lives in Fremont, California.

Books by Lawrence J. McQuillan

Beyond Homeless

Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes, Transformative Solutions

Edited by Mary L. G. Theroux, Lawrence J. McQuillan and Adam B. Summers / Foreword by Drew Pinsky
Entire neighborhoods in cities across the United States have become open-air asylums, drug markets, and impoverished wastelands—where death, misery, crime, addiction, encampments, fires, disease, and even human waste aren't just tolerated but normalized. How is this possible when billions of t...
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California Dreaming

Lessons on How to Resolve America's Public Pension Crisis

By Lawrence J. McQuillan
A politically created crisis of epic proportions is brewing in California and elsewhere across the United States.

For decades, public pension officials and politicians of both parties have promised their employees increasingly generous retirement benefits—while low-balling the contr...
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