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Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Credentials
- Bachelor’s of Science in Theoretical Mathematics and Political Science from Tulane University.1โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
Background
Fred L. Smith is the founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). He served as CEI’s President from 1984 until 2013, later working as the Director of CEI’s Center for Advancing Capitalism.2โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
Smith’s former positions include Director of Government Relations for the Council for a Competitive Economy, senior economist for the Association of American Railroads, and Senior Policy Analyst at the EPA. He is a Board member at CEI as well as the American Conservative Union (ACU), and the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). He is a member of the Foundation for Economic Educationโs Faculty Network.3โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
Smith is a self-described โknee-jerk-liberalโ-turned-free-market-conservative. Smith founded the Competitive Enterprise Institute to hit โthe proper targetsโThe hearts and minds of Americans,โ in the words of a 1995 National Journal article. The article listed CEI alongside organizations such as Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), the Institute for Justice, the Progress & Freedom Foundation, and the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, โunabashedly conservative or libertarianโ think tanks that often receive contributions from business interests with a stake in the issues they are researching.4Louis Jacobson. โTanks on the Roll,โ National Journal, 7/8/1995. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates No. TI14372110.
While the CEI doesn’t reveal its funding sources, the Washington Post looked at a sample of donors at CEI’s annual dinner which included energy companies Marathon Petroleum, Koch Industries, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM). Google and Facebook were also major sponsors.5Juliet Eilperin. โAnatomy of a Washington dinner: Who funds the Competitive Enterprise Institute?โ The Washington Post, June 20, 2013. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CZoH2
Public tax documents also show that ExxonMobil has contributed over $1.5 million to CEI. More than $5 million comes from the secretive DonorsTrust (DT) and $1 million from its sister organization, Donors Capital Fund (DCF). Together, DT and DCF have been described as the โdark money ATMโ of the Conservative movement.6โCompetitive Enterprise Institute,โ Conservative Transparency. Data retrieved June 2, 2017. 7Andy Kroll. โExposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement,โ Mother Jones, February 5, 2013. Archived June 6, 2017. Archive.is URL:https://archive.is/Mzk0H
Fred L. Smith & Tobacco
Fred L. Smith and the Competitive Enterprise Institute have a history of fighting against tobacco regulation. For example, at the 2004 American Conservative Union (ACU) annual conference, Smith said on a panel regarding tobacco regulation that one should consider the โthreats these regulations pose to individual liberty.โ He described smoking itself as a โsymbol of freedom.โ8โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
Smith has regularly requested financial aid from tobacco companies like Philip Morris and The Tobacco Institute, according to records from the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents archive. For example, in a October 2000 memo, Fred L. Smith thanked Ms. Maura Payne of RJ Reynolds Tobacco for โRJR’s continued supportโ, adding โyour personal involvement has meant a lot to our battles over the last 16 years.โ The letter concludes, โI know you have contributed between $20,000 to $50,000 over the years.โ9โDear Maura,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, October 16, 2000. Retrieved from Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates Number : 525291068-525291069.
In an October 1994 memo, Smith thanked Philip Morris for a contribution of $150,000. โPhilip Morris’s contribution will enable CEI to expand our efforts in well-established areas as our Human Cost of Regulation program and other regulatory reform projects,โ the memo read.10โDear Tom,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, October 11, 1994. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates No. 2046558061.
In September 1995, Smith requested an additional $200,000 contribution from Phillip Morris. โI believe our past accomplishments and plans for the future merit such a substantial contribution,โ Smith wrote in his letter to Thomas J. Borelli.11โDear Tom:โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, September 21, 1995. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates No. 2046557755-2046557762.
Stance on Climate Change
February 2007
In testimony regarding the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a group of individuals and businesses proposing government actions to reduce greenhouse emissions, Smith described carbon use as a โtheoretical threat,โ and pointed to โalarmist viewsโ on global warming:12โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
โThere are major costs, we’ve heard, of rationing energy. Yet there are no obvious gains, even if one accepts the alarmist views of global warming. No one is proposing any carbon use curtailment that would do anything meaningful to reduce the theoretical threat of carbon use. The current proposals are all pain, no gain,โ said Smith.13โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
Key Quotes
July 2010
In a discussion on โgreed,โ as proposed by Michael Douglas’ character Gordon Gekko on Wall Street who said โgreed is good,โ Smith said:14โFred L. Smith: Is Greed Good?โ YouTube video uploaded by user Competitive Enterprise Institute, July 7, 2010. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
โGreed is just a pejorative term for the human condition of self-interest. And it’s the only thing that drives mankind to make the world better for all,โ said Smith.15โFred L. Smith: Is Greed Good?โ YouTube video uploaded by user Competitive Enterprise Institute, July 7, 2010. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
February 11, 2006
Smith spoke at a meeting of the Council for National Policy (CNP) in Henderson NV on February 11, 2006. His talk at CNP was titled โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Futureโ16โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
โEnvironmentalism poses a real and present danger to Americaโs future,โ Smith declared in his remarks. โ[โฆ] The environmental problem is not that there is too much private property, but rather that there is too little.โ He concluded that โConservatives must reject, not compromise with, the eco-pagan and eco-socialist biases proffered by the environmental establishment.โ17โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
January 2004
Speaking at the 2004 The American Conservative Union (ACU) annual conference, Smith spoke of research on the risks of secondhand smoke:
โ[T]he risk associated with secondhand smoke were in the noise. Were trivial,โ he said.18โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
Key Deeds
February 2007
Fred L. Smith was one of several witnesses to testify on the findings of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership report, which would call for reductions in greenhouse gases.19โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
During his testimony, Smith said on behalf of CEI that โwe believe that the risk of global warming must be set off against the risk of global warming policies.โ20โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
Smith said that โthe proposal to create a carbon cartel advanced by the Climate Action Partnership is one of those policy risks, a serious one I believe.โ He adds, โAmerica normally puts people in jail who create anti-consumer cartels.โ21โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
โThe Climate Action Partnership, an alliance of environmental and business groups, has been promoted as an example of responsible leaders seeking to protect our planet. Perhaps. But when businessmen seek, politically, to achieve what they cannot achieve in the marketplace, we should all be a bit skeptical,โ he said.22โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
Smith cites the Climate Action Partnership as an example of โeconomic interest groups cloaking their search for monopoly profits under some convenient moral cause.โ23โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
โThere are major costs, we’ve heard, of rationing energy. Yet there are no obvious gains, even if one accepts the alarmist views of global warming. No one is proposing any carbon use curtailment that would do anything meaningful to reduce the theoretical threat of carbon use. The current proposals are all pain, no gain,โ said Smith.24โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
February 2006
In a 2006 CEI document, Smith speaks of a โNew Environmental Gospelโ that โpreaches that property rights are evil and that the power of the state is benevolent.โ25Fred L. Smith. โReview of Robert Nelsonโs Economics as Religionโ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute, July 3, 2006.
According to the footnotes, Smith initially presented portions of his paper at a meeting of the Council for National Policy (CNP) in Henderson NV on February 11, 2006. His talk at CNP was titled โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future.โ26โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
In his remarks, Smith said conservatives should engage in the environmental debate and that โwhile we have a deep and important moral responsibility to care for Godโs creation, that this responsibility should be by extending the conservative institutions of liberty (private property, the rule of law, private action) โ not by joining the collectivist environmental parade.โ27โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
He clarifies the terms โEco Paganismโ and โEco-Socialismโ:28โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- โEco-Paganism? Most environmentalists do not, of course, see themselves as pagans. Yet, many do espouse a watered down form of pantheism which elevates nature to near deity. They have confused the biblical truth that the earth is the Lordโs with the fashionable environmental slogan that the Earth is the Lord! Moreover, the environmental establishment demands a status for the Cathedrals of Nature that they deny vigorously for the Cathedrals of God.โ29โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- โEco-Socialism? Again, most would reject the socialist label, insisting that they wish only to โcorrect market failuresโ (which they seem to find everywhere). But, their โfree marketโ would be rigidly controlled by environmental rules, with โmarket-mechanismsโ rhetoric used to justify pervasive regulatory taxes and quotas to micro-manage the economy. That was the system put forward by communist theorists in the 1930s as market socialism. It failed; eco-socialism is now failing in the global warming sector. In their world: EPA will steer; you and I are allowed only to row! In their world, as in that of their socialist precursors, there is little role for private conservation or private property. โ 30โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
Smith added, โToday, weโre becoming increasingly aware that the Endangered Species Act endangers species, that Superfund enriches lawyers while cleansing only taxpayerโs wallets. The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts restrict growth and control land use but do little to make America more healthful, that EPA increasingly alarms rather than informs the American citizenry. And these problems are becoming increasingly evident.โ 31โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
โEnvironmentalism poses a real and present danger to Americaโs future,โ Smith declared.32โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
January 24, 2004
The American Conservative Union (ACU) held its annual conference, which included two panels that looked at the issues of the FDA’s regulation of tobacco and global climate change, reported C-SPAN video.33โTobacco Regulation and Global Climate Change,โ C-SPAN, January 24, 2004. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
John Calfee, resident scholar of the American Enterprise Institute declared that it would be โan absolutely terrible idea to pass legislation supported by Phillip Morris and others to put the FDA in charge of the tobacco market.โ He introduces Smith, saying he will be talking about โmyths that need debunking.โ (Smith’s presentation starts shortly after 18:40.34โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
โShould the nanny state regulate tobacco? No. Of course not,โ Smith declared. He then went on to list out the supposed โthreats these regulations pose to individual liberty,โ while portraying smoking itself as a โsymbol of freedom.โ He also admits that โthe hazards of smoking, we all know are real and they’re there.โ35โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
โChildren’s defense fund strategies are immoral,โ Smith added. โThe youth of America want to live in a free world. [โฆ] the nanny regulators should not regulate smoking, or anything else really. [โฆ] We should not be regulating advertising for these products.โ36โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
In the Q&A session, responding to a question on alcohol and regulation in comparison with tobacco, Smith said: โWhile one should discuss the negative aspects of one’s productsโthe facts that alcohol can be damaging to some individualsโone should also be allowed to put in the positive effects; that moderate consumption of alcohol [โฆ] is healthy. It’s health-enhancing. There’s a pro-con, risk-risk analysis.โ [28:10]37โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
Citing a study by an โemeritus epidemiological professor at Harvard,โ Smith says that โthe risk associated with secondhand smoke were in the noise. Were trivial.โ [34:50]38โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
Talking about โsound science,โ pointing to groups like Steve Milloy’s JunkScience, as well as work by AEI.39โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
Following the discussion on tobacco regulation was a panel on climate change, featuring S. Fred Singer, Bonner Cohen, and Myron Ebell.40โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
January 26, 2003
Smith wrote a joint letter with Marlo Lewis to President Bush, discouraging him from supporting the McCain-Lieberman bill as well as opposing mandatory CO2 reductions as part of the Kyoto agreement.41โCEI’s Fred Smith and Marlo Lewis Send Coalition Letter To President Bush On The Proposed Greenhouse Gas Registry,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 26, 2003. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/06CBs
โClearly, McCain-Lieberman is antithetical both to your National Energy Policy, which seeks to secure affordable energy for the American people, and your growth and jobs policy, which seeks to stimulate the economy via tax cuts,โ the letter read.42โCEI’s Fred Smith and Marlo Lewis Send Coalition Letter To President Bush On The Proposed Greenhouse Gas Registry,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 26, 2003. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/06CBs
February 1998
Fred L. Smith spoke at a program hosted by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (AERF โ now the Atlas Network) titled โPoverty and the Environment โ Global Lessons, Local Solutionsโ in Orlando, Florida. According to the AERF description, smith presented a briefing on his experience during the Kyoto Global Warming Summit. He presented the slogan, โA world starved of energy will be a world of starving people.โ43โPOVERTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT โGLOBAL LESSONS, LOCAL SOLUTIONS,โ AtlasUSA.org. Archived December 21, 2002. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8OG5c
Other speakers at the event included Sally Pipes (Pacific Research Institute), Jo Kwong (Atlas director of environmental programs), Terry Anderson (PERC), Bonner Cohen (EPA Watch), Henry Miller (Hoover Institute), and numerous others.44โPOVERTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT โGLOBAL LESSONS, LOCAL SOLUTIONS,โ AtlasUSA.org. Archived December 21, 2002. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8OG5c
February 5โ8, 1998
Smith was a speaker at a conference hosted by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation (AERF) on โPoverty and the Environment.โ Beisner’s talk was titled โLessons From Kyoto: Strategic Leadership.โ45โPoverty and the Environment: Global Lessons โ Local Solutions,โ Atlas-fdn.org. Archived February 4, 1998. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ckbbb
According to the conference event description, โThis Atlas Economic Research Foundation conference will bring together scholars and government officials from the Americas, to discuss the interrelationships between poverty, human health and environmental quality. For two days, speakers, panelists and commentators will examine deep-rooted problems โฆ evaluate how nations have sought to solve them with central planning and governmental mandates โฆ explore market-oriented alternatives to command-and-control approaches โฆ and address the pros and cons of international treaties and protocols that often involve one-size-fits- all ‘solutions’ to narrowly defined environmental problems and concerns.โ46โPoverty and the Environment: Global Lessons โ Local Solutions,โ Atlas-fdn.org. Archived February 4, 1998. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ckbbb
The event, hosted in Orlando, Florida, included a tour of Disney World’s waste management facility, followed by speaker discussions on โglobal treaties and local solutions in the areas of packaging, solid wastes, wastewater treatment, air quality and related issues.โ The full list of speakers was as follows:47โPoverty and the Environment: Global Lessons โ Local Solutions,โ Atlas-fdn.org. Archived February 4, 1998. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ckbbb
Name | Affiliation | Country |
Alejandro Chafuen | Atlas Economic Research Foundation | USA |
Hernan Bรผchi | Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo | Chile |
Lynn Scarlett | Reason Foundation | USA |
Sally Pipes | Pacific Research Institute | USA |
Calvin Beisner | Covenant College | USA |
Jo Kwong | Atlas Economic Research Foundation | |
Terry Anderson | PERC | USA |
Harry Teasley | Former President, Coca Cola Nestle Refreshments Company | USA |
Roy Mecklenburg | Walt Disney World | USA |
Monica Ozores-Hampton | University of Florida | USA |
Moderator: Deroy Murdock | Atlas Economic Research Foundation | USA |
Fred Smith | Competitive Enterprise Institute | USA |
Harvey Alter | Chamber of Commerce | USA |
Henry Miller | Hoover Institute | USA |
Roger Bate | Institute of Economic Affairs | United Kingdom |
Enrique Ghersi | CITEL | Peru |
Roberto Fendt | Instituto Liberal | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Patricia Vasquez | Fundacion Republica | Argentina |
Harvey Alter | Chamber of Commerce | USA |
Charles Stitt | Former Deputy Mayor, City of Indianapolis | USA |
Luis Diaz | CalRecovery, Inc. | USA |
Doug Reichlan | United Water Services | USA |
Maria Isabel Di Mare | Universidad Autonoma de Centro America | Costa Rica |
Fernando Von Zuben | CEMPRE | Brazil |
Arturo Davila | Procesa | Mexico |
Ana Maria Garmendia | SUSTENTA | Mexico |
Hon. Armando Ribas | Former Member of Congress, Argentina | Argentina |
October 1995
Fred L. Smith flies to the UK with climate science contrarian Patrick Michaels to attend a conference in London organised by the Institute of Economic Affairs. The conference is thought to be the first event in the UK to actively promote climate science denial.
1992
Smith is co-author with Michael S. Greve of Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (1992). In a September 1992 fundraising letter, Greve petitions The Tobacco Institute for financial support for the Center for Individual Rights.48โDear Mr. Gleason:โ Center for Individual Rights, September 9, 1992. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents.
In the letter, Greve points out to Martin J. Gleason, Director of Issues Management of The Tobacco Institute, that โYou may find Chapter 8, which deals in part with the regulation of tobacco exports, of particular interest.โ49โDear Mr. Gleason:โ Center for Individual Rights, September 9, 1992. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents.
October 2, 1991
Fred Smith is quoted in a Policy Backgrounder fighting against CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards, as part of an executive report collection in the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents archive.50Scarlett, Lynn. โFOR RELEASE AT 10 A.M. EDT Monday September 23 1991,โ Tobacco Institute Records; RPCI Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research Records.
Smith argues that increases in traffic fatalities can be attributed to fuel economy standards:51Scarlett, Lynn. โFOR RELEASE AT 10 A.M. EDT Monday September 23 1991,โ Tobacco Institute Records; RPCI Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research Records.
โIn raising the CAFE standard to 40 mpg by the end of the decade, the Bryan bill would more than double the number of annual CAFE-caused fatalities, leading to thousands of unnecessary auto deaths without any discernible benefit in return,โ Smith concludes.52Scarlett, Lynn. โFOR RELEASE AT 10 A.M. EDT Monday September 23 1991,โ Tobacco Institute Records; RPCI Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research Records.
Affiliations
- Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) โ Founder and Former President. Director, CEI’s Center for Advancing Capitalism.53โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- The Heartland Institute โ โPolicy Expert.โ54โFRED L. SMITH,โ The Heartland Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/gvHby
- American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) โ Member, Board of Trustees.55โOur Team,โ American Council on Science and Health. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/xQh84
- Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) โ Member, FEE Faculty Network.56โFred Smith,โ Foundation for Economic Education via Google Cache, March 25, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sUdTD
- American Conservative Union (ACU) โ Former Board Member (listed as of 2016).57โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB 58โ2016 Ratings of New Hampshireโ (PDF), The American Conservative Union Foundation. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- Council for a Competitive Economy โ Former Director of Government Relations.59โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- Association of American Railroads โ Former Senior Economist.60โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) โ Former Senior Policy Analyst.61โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- Institute Turgot โ Member.62โFred L. Smith Jr.,โ American Council on Science and Health. Archived June 6, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/81uZD
Social Media
- @FredLSmithJr on Twitter.
Publications
Smith’s profile at ACSH notes that he has regularly appeared on television and radio programs to discuss regulation and policy, including CNN’s Crossfire, PBS s News Hour with Jim Lehrer and Now with Bill Moyers, ABC’s 20/20 and This Week, NPR’s Talk of the Nation and The Diane Rehm Show, and The G. Gordon Liddy Show, among others.63โFred L. Smith Jr.โ American Council on Science and Health. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2vTay
His ACSH profile also nots that he has written in a range of newspapers and magazines including The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Economic Affairs, and the Washington Times.64โFred L. Smith Jr.โ American Council on Science and Health. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2vTay
Smith’s books include Field Guide to Effective Communication (2004), Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Lessons from the Collapse of Enron and Other Major Corporations (2003), Ecology, Liberty, & Property: A Free Market Environmental Reader (2000), The Future of Financial Privacy: Private Choices versus Political Rules (1999), Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (1992), and Steering The Elephant: How Washington Works (1987). 20]
He was co-editor of Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards. He also contributed chapters to several books including:65โFred L. Smith, Jr.’ (PDF), Retrieved from U.S. House of Representatives Document Repository. Document created March 13, 2015.
- Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths,
- True State of the Planet,
- Solutions for an Environment in Peril,
- Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century, and
- Assessing the Reagan Years.
Other Resources
- โFred Smith,โ SourceWatch. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/e53kM
- โFACTSHEET: FRED L. SMITH JR.,โ ExxonSecrets. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Iw4GE
- Fred L. Smith’s Bio (PDF), retreived from U.S. House of Representatives Document Repository.
Resources
- 1โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- 2โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- 3โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- 4Louis Jacobson. โTanks on the Roll,โ National Journal, 7/8/1995. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates No. TI14372110.
- 5Juliet Eilperin. โAnatomy of a Washington dinner: Who funds the Competitive Enterprise Institute?โ The Washington Post, June 20, 2013. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/CZoH2
- 6โCompetitive Enterprise Institute,โ Conservative Transparency. Data retrieved June 2, 2017.
- 7Andy Kroll. โExposed: The Dark-Money ATM of the Conservative Movement,โ Mother Jones, February 5, 2013. Archived June 6, 2017. Archive.is URL:https://archive.is/Mzk0H
- 8โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
- 9โDear Maura,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, October 16, 2000. Retrieved from Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates Number : 525291068-525291069.
- 10โDear Tom,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, October 11, 1994. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates No. 2046558061.
- 11โDear Tom:โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, September 21, 1995. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Bates No. 2046557755-2046557762.
- 12โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
- 13โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
- 14โFred L. Smith: Is Greed Good?โ YouTube video uploaded by user Competitive Enterprise Institute, July 7, 2010. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 15โFred L. Smith: Is Greed Good?โ YouTube video uploaded by user Competitive Enterprise Institute, July 7, 2010. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 16โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- 17โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- 18โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
- 19โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
- 20โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
- 21โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
- 22โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
- 23โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
- 24โGlobal Climate Change [โฆ]โ C-SPAN, February 13, 2007. Archived video on file at DeSmog.
- 25Fred L. Smith. โReview of Robert Nelsonโs Economics as Religionโ (PDF), Competitive Enterprise Institute, July 3, 2006.
- 26โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- 27โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- 28โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- 29โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- 30โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- 31โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- 32โEgo-Paganism – Eco- Socialism Severe Threats to Americas Future,โ Council on National Policy. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/pXCQK
- 33โTobacco Regulation and Global Climate Change,โ C-SPAN, January 24, 2004. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- 34โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
- 35โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
- 36โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
- 37โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
- 38โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
- 39โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
- 40โFred Smith speaking at ACU 2004,โ C-SOAN User-Created Clip by Mfisher81, May 17, 2017.
- 41โCEI’s Fred Smith and Marlo Lewis Send Coalition Letter To President Bush On The Proposed Greenhouse Gas Registry,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 26, 2003. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/06CBs
- 42โCEI’s Fred Smith and Marlo Lewis Send Coalition Letter To President Bush On The Proposed Greenhouse Gas Registry,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 26, 2003. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/06CBs
- 43โPOVERTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT โGLOBAL LESSONS, LOCAL SOLUTIONS,โ AtlasUSA.org. Archived December 21, 2002. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8OG5c
- 44โPOVERTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT โGLOBAL LESSONS, LOCAL SOLUTIONS,โ AtlasUSA.org. Archived December 21, 2002. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/8OG5c
- 45โPoverty and the Environment: Global Lessons โ Local Solutions,โ Atlas-fdn.org. Archived February 4, 1998. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ckbbb
- 46โPoverty and the Environment: Global Lessons โ Local Solutions,โ Atlas-fdn.org. Archived February 4, 1998. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ckbbb
- 47โPoverty and the Environment: Global Lessons โ Local Solutions,โ Atlas-fdn.org. Archived February 4, 1998. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/Ckbbb
- 48โDear Mr. Gleason:โ Center for Individual Rights, September 9, 1992. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents.
- 49โDear Mr. Gleason:โ Center for Individual Rights, September 9, 1992. Retrieved from Truth Tobacco Industry Documents.
- 50Scarlett, Lynn. โFOR RELEASE AT 10 A.M. EDT Monday September 23 1991,โ Tobacco Institute Records; RPCI Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research Records.
- 51Scarlett, Lynn. โFOR RELEASE AT 10 A.M. EDT Monday September 23 1991,โ Tobacco Institute Records; RPCI Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research Records.
- 52Scarlett, Lynn. โFOR RELEASE AT 10 A.M. EDT Monday September 23 1991,โ Tobacco Institute Records; RPCI Tobacco Institute and Council for Tobacco Research Records.
- 53โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- 54โFRED L. SMITH,โ The Heartland Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/gvHby
- 55โOur Team,โ American Council on Science and Health. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/xQh84
- 56โFred Smith,โ Foundation for Economic Education via Google Cache, March 25, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sUdTD
- 57โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- 58โ2016 Ratings of New Hampshireโ (PDF), The American Conservative Union Foundation. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
- 59โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- 60โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- 61โFred L. Smith, Jr.: Founder,โ Competitive Enterprise Institute. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/sA7xB
- 62โFred L. Smith Jr.,โ American Council on Science and Health. Archived June 6, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/81uZD
- 63โFred L. Smith Jr.โ American Council on Science and Health. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2vTay
- 64โFred L. Smith Jr.โ American Council on Science and Health. Archived May 17, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2vTay
- 65โFred L. Smith, Jr.’ (PDF), Retrieved from U.S. House of Representatives Document Repository. Document created March 13, 2015.