Roger A. Freeman (economist)

Roger A. Freeman (September 2, 1904—December 25, 1991) was an Austrian-American economist who served as an advisor to Dwight D. Eisenhower, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a special assistant in the Nixon administration, and an advisor to then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. Freeman specialized in public finance within the neoclassical liberal tradition. He was a critic of the welfare state, an advocate for welfare reform, and a defender of fiscal conservatism.