Edward McCarthy Miller, Jr. (born September 2, 1944) is an American economist and writer.
[2] During the Richard Nixon administration, Miller was an economist with the United States Department of the Treasury, Office of Tax Analysis, on detail to the White House, from 1972 to 1973.
[2] Miller was then appointed Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs at Rice University.
[4] After Miller wrote to local New Orleans paper Gambit Weekly in 1996 to object to an earlier story about race and intelligence, Miller was subjected to discipline for using his university position to lend unwarranted weight to views outside his professional competence.
[5] Among those who came to Miller's defense was Robert D. Chatelle at the National Writers Union.