Jew Wanniski

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Jude Wanniski (born June 17, 1936 in Pottsville , PA , † August 29, 2005 in Morristown , NJ ) was an American political economist , publicist and journalist .

Life

Wanniski was born in 1936 as the son of a copper miner. He grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and attended Brooklyn College here . Wanniski studied political science and journalism at the University of Chicago , later at the University of California, Los Angeles . After graduating, he worked for various newspapers in Anchorage , Los Angeles and Las Vegas , then as a political columnist for the National Observer . In 1972, Jude Wanniski joined the Wall Street Journal and later became an associate editor of the Wall Street Journal . He represented a consistently supply-oriented theoretical economic basis for the economic design of the economy . He was one of the leading advisors in the Ronald Reagan era .

Wanniski became internationally known with his book "The Way the World Works".

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