Economist John Taylor wins Bradley Prize

JOHN TAYLOR, professor of economics and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, has won one of the four Bradley Prizes awarded this year by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

The prize, which is given to prominent scholars and engaged citizens for outstanding achievement, comes with a $250,000 stipend.

Taylor will be recognized during an awards ceremony on June 16 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

This year’s other Bradley Prize winners are Michael Barone, senior policy analyst for the Washington Examiner; Paul Gigot, editorial page editor for the Wall Street Journal; and Bradley Smith, a law professor at Capital University.

Taylor – who outlined the recent financial meltdown in Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged and Worsened the Financial Crisis – joins six other Hoover fellows who have received the Bradley Prize.

—Adam Gorlick