Daniel J. Mitchell

In 1985, Mitchell moved to the Washington metropolitan area to begin pursuing a Ph.D. in economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

[2] In addition to his Cato Institute responsibilities, Mitchell co-founded the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, an organization formed to protect international tax competition.

[1] Mitchell's work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, National Review, Villanova Law Review, Public Choice, Emory Law Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Playboy, Investor's Business Daily, and other publications.

Mitchell's daily blog is "Liberty – Restraining Government in America and Around the World", in which he writes about economic issues related to sustainable freedom and prosperity.

Mitchell is a frequent commentator on television and has appeared on all the major networks, including CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, CNBC, and C-SPAN.