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Join MS in Intelligence Analysis Program Director Michael Ard as he hosts the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh, senior vice president for policy and immigration expert, on a look at terrorism numbers.
Nowrasteh’s non-academic writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, and most other major publications in the United States. Nowrasteh regularly appears on Fox News, MSNBC, Bloomberg, NPR, and numerous television and radio stations. His peer‐reviewed academic articles have appeared in the World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Public Choice, Kyklos, the Journal of Bioeconomics, and other publications. He has also contributed numerous book chapters to various edited volumes. Nowrasteh is the coauthor (with Benjamin Powell) of Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which is the first book on how economic institutions in receiving countries adjust to immigration. Wretched Refuse? received the SDAE Prize for the Best Book in Austrian Economics in 2022 from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.
Nowrasteh, a native of Southern California, received a BA in economics from George Mason University and an MS in economic history from the London School of Economics.
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Join MS in Intelligence Analysis Program Director Michael Ard as he hosts the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh, senior vice president for policy and immigration expert, on a look at terrorism numbers.
Nowrasteh’s non-academic writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, and most other major publications in the United States. Nowrasteh regularly appears on Fox News, MSNBC, Bloomberg, NPR, and numerous television and radio stations. His peer‐reviewed academic articles have appeared in the World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Public Choice, Kyklos, the Journal of Bioeconomics, and other publications. He has also contributed numerous book chapters to various edited volumes. Nowrasteh is the coauthor (with Benjamin Powell) of Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which is the first book on how economic institutions in receiving countries adjust to immigration. Wretched Refuse? received the SDAE Prize for the Best Book in Austrian Economics in 2022 from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.
Nowrasteh, a native of Southern California, received a BA in economics from George Mason University and an MS in economic history from the London School of Economics.
Learn more about the MS in Inside Intelligence program: https://advanced.jhu.edu/academics/graduate/ms-intelligence-analysis/
Want to be notified about upcoming editions of Inside Intelligence? Subscribe to our newsletter, Advanced Notice:
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#TerrorismAnalysis #IntelligenceAnalysis #PolicyDiscussion #AlexNowrasteh #NationalSecurity #ImmigrationPolicy #EconomicResearch #CatoInstitute #DataDrivenAnalysis #PublicPolicy
