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John Richard Lott, Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland, College Park, and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is also currently a columnist for FoxNews.com. Lott holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. He has written for both academic and popular publications. Lott is a frequent writer of op-eds, and has written seven books, including ''More Guns, Less Crime'', ''The Bias Against Guns'', and ''Freedomnomics''. He is best known as an advocate〔〔〔 in the gun rights debate, particularly his arguments against restrictions on owning and carrying guns. In 2000, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman said that "John Lott has few equals as a perceptive analyst of controversial public policy issues."〔"(Peter Brimelow, Guns, Drugs And Insider Trading, Forbes Magazine, September 18, 2000 )"〕 Newsweek referred to Lott as "The Gun Crowd's Guru."〔"(Matt Bai, The Gun Crowd's Guru: John Lott has a high profile—and a target on his back, Newsweek, March 12, 2001 )" 〕 ==Academic career== Lott studied economics at UCLA, receiving his B.A. in 1980, M.A. in 1982, and Ph.D. in 1984. Lott has held positions in law and economics at several institutions, including the Yale Law School, Stanford, UCLA, the Wharton Business School, Texas A&M University, and Rice University. Lott was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission (1988–1989). He spent five years as a visiting professor (1994–95) and as a fellow (1995–99) at the University of Chicago. Lott was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (2001–2006). He left AEI for SUNY Binghamton.〔(Curriculum Vitae of John R. Lott, Jr., dated March 17, 2008. )〕 From July 2007 to 2010, Lott was a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland Foundation at the University of Maryland, College Park.〔(Social Science Research Network )〕〔(Blogspot.com )〕 As of November 1, 2012, Lott ranked 19th in number of all-time downloads, and 2662nd in scholarly citations of his work, on the Social Science Research Network.〔Ranking of 30,000 Top Authors http://hq.ssrn.com/rankings/Ranking_display.cfm?RequestTimeout=5000&TMY_gID=2&TRN_gID=7&runid=36064〕〔"(Social Science Research Network )"〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Lott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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