Michael R. Strain

Michael R. Strain is Director of Economic Policy Studies and Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. An economist, his papers have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals and in policy journals, and he is the editor of two books on economics and public policy. He is the author of “The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It),” published in February 2020. He is a research fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. Dr. Strain also writes frequently for popular audiences, and his essays and op-eds have been published by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and National Review, among others. He is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A frequent guest on radio and television, he is regularly interviewed by broadcast news networks, including CNBC, MSNBC, and NPR. He has testified before Congress and speaks often to a variety of audiences. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell, and lives in Washington.