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BIO SUMMARY
My name is D Brady Nelson, and I am a neoAustrian economist currently looking for full-time or paid
project work opportunities in free market think tanks, media or politics. I am an economic regulation
expert with the Heartland Institute of Chicago IL USA, and have been since 2010. I have written dozens
of freelance articles for them, mainly on energy and environment but also on budget and tax, health care
and education. I can add immediate value in the policy areas of budgets, economics, money, regulation,
tax and public utilities. I can legally work in AUS, NZ, UK and the USA.
I have also done freelance writing, speaking, media and other work for (alphabetical order): Mises
Institute USA; Mises Institute Canada; Crime Prevention Research Center; GradeGov; Safe Worlds TV;
Conservative Political Action Conference; Liberal National Party; Terabit Media; MacIver Institute;
Wisconsin Manufacturing & Commerce; Wisconsin Policy Research Institute; Fox Valley Initiative;
Utility Week; Major Energy Users Association; Institute of Public Affairs; Energy Users Association of
Australia; and Crolls Media Monitoring. I have a regulation reform principles booklet due to be published
this year, as well as a public utilities reform booklet due to be published next year by the Institute of
Economic Affairs. Also in the pipeline is possible freelance work for (alphabetical order): American
Action Forum; Bruges Group; Cato Institute; Center for Freedom and Prosperity; Cobden Centre;
Competitive Enterprise Institute; Independent Institute; Mercatus Center; Reason Foundation; Right
Wisconsin; and others. I am also actively looking for a book publisher re free market myths & realities.
My main skills and experience are applied micro-economics (eg competition, cost benefit, finance,
industrial, government, legal, managerial, markets, pricing, regulatory, strategy, etc), as well as some
applied macro-economics (eg business cycles, money, public finance, statistics, etc). I also have readily
transferable skills in (alphabetical order) advocacy, analysis, auditing, business development, compliance,
consulting, due diligence, editing, peer review, people and project management (between 2 and 12 staff),
planning, radio, research, training, TV, valuation, and writing. I also have significant experience with
most of the economic price regulated infrastructure industries (especially public ‘natural monopoly’
utilities) in AUS, NZ, UK and the USA, including communications, energy, transport and water.
My prime areas of differentiation are in my: very wide knowledge base of economics and related matters
like policy, law, history and ethics, particularly as it pertains to business and consumer valuation, pricing
and production, and government intervention in these; ability to critically apply and positively
communicate that knowledge to almost any person and in any situation; and in so doing, to both think
‘inside’ (eg mainstream Neoclassical micro-economics and Keynesian macro-economics) and ‘outside the
box’ (eg Austrian micro-economics and macro-economics), and take action with passion, entertainment
and empathy to bring it all together.
I am originally from Milwaukee WI USA, but have lived and worked most of my adult life in AUS
(mainly Brisbane QLD and Sydney NSW). I have also worked in: Canberra ACT, Darwin NT, Melbourne
VIC and Perth WA AUS; Auckland NZ; London ENG, Stirling SCO and Edinburgh SCO UK; Chicago
IL, Madison WI and Washington DC USA; as well as Canada, India, Malaysia, South Africa and Sweden.
CV HIGHLIGHTS
Education
Master of Commerce (with Distinction) Business Law Major
Bachelor of Economics (with Honours) Economic History Major
Training
On-Camera TV Interviews Training Political Leadership Training
Think Tank Leadership Training Mastering Public Speaking Training
Web Publications
• Hidden tax of regulation article
• A Time for Choosing blog
• UK v Australia competition reforms article
• Natural monopoly utilities regulation article
• Cost of living article (published in 2013, but
written in 2011)
• Airport pricing & rents submission (appA
attachA … word search “rent”)
• Australian carbon tax repeal article
• Senate v EPA energy regulation article
• Environmental regulation & other articles
(dozens & counting)
• Michigan mining resurgence article
• Ogallala water aquifer reform article
• State parks privitization article
• Chesapeake Bay property rights article
• Regulatory survey & results report (co-
authored)
• President Obama policy critique article
• Water competition & reform article

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CV FULL
Affiliations
Australian Institute for Progress
Brisbane QLD AUS
2014-2015
Heartland Institute
Chicago IL USA
2010-2015
Institute of Economic Affairs
London ENG UK
2008-2015
Ludwig von Mises Institute
Auburn AL USA
2009-2015
Education
Master of Commerce (with Distinction)
Business Law Major
UNSW Sydney NSW AUS
1996-2000 (part-time)
Key Notables:
• Averaged a Distinction (“A” equivalent)
• Finished first in Competition Law
• Finished first in Commercial Law
• Thesis on Queensland monopoly regulation
Bachelor of Economics (with Honours)
Economic History Major
ANU Canberra ACT AUS
1989-1993 (full- & part-time)
Key Notables:
• Averaged a Credit (“B” equivalent)
• Finished first in Japanese Economy & Policy
• Thesis on Australian macroeconomic policy
Professional
Free Market Economist, Writer & Speaker
Budget, Money, Regulation, Tax & Utilities
Policy
AUS, CAN, UK & USA
2010 & 2014 (full-time) & 2011-2013 (part-time)
Key Projects (sample):
• Multiple Potential Book Publishers / USA,
AUS &/or UK / 2015-2016 / Free market myths
& realities book author (in search)
• Institute of Economic Affairs / London ENG
UK / 2015-2016 / Public utilities regulation
reform booklet author (in progress)
• Multiple Potential Think Tanks / USA & UK
/ 2015 / Regulation reform principles booklet
author (in negotiations)
• Mises Institute / Auburn AL USA / 2015 /
Regulation & deregulation article author
• Mises Canada / Toronto ON CAN / 2014 /
Natural monopoly utilities regulation article
author
• Heartland Institute / Chicago IL USA / 2010-
2015
• Environmental regulation articles author
(dozens & counting)
• Ronald Reagan 1964 speech blog author
• Budget article
• Health regulation article
• Global warming conference & policy
assistance
• Utility Week / London ENG UK / 2009 & 2014
• UK v Australia competition reforms article
author
• Water & sewerage industry reform article
author
• Crime Prevention Research Center /
Arlington VA USA / 2013-2014
• American schools guns & crime statistics
researcher
• Australian guns & crime statistics researcher
Key Projects (sample):
• GradeGov / Washington DC USA / 2013-2014
• PBF index modelling & article author
• EPA related Senate resolution article
• Guns related legislation analyst
• Safe Worlds TV / Washington DC USA /
2013-2014 / CPAC organising assistance
• Liberal National Party / Brisbane QLD AUS /
2011-2013
• Federal election campaigning
• Cost of living article author
• Reducing red tape policy sub-committee
member
• Terabit Media / NYC NY USA / 2010-2011 /
Global warming trial website manager &
blogger
• MacIver Institute / Madison WI USA / 2010
• Renewable energy regulation paper author
• President Obama policy critique article
author
• Wisconsin Manufacturing & Commerce /
Madison WI USA / 2010 / Business ‘red tape’
regulation survey co-manager & co-author
• Wisconsin Policy Research Institute /
Madison WI USA / 2010 / Higher education
economic impacts modelling
• Fox Valley Initiative / Appleton WI USA /
2010 / Tax Day deregulation speaker
• Major Energy Users Association / London
ENG UK / 2008 / Energy business model
reform assistance
• Institute of Public Affairs / Melbourne VIC
AUS / 2007 / Access regulation article author
• Crolls Media Monitoring / Canberra ACT
AUS / 1990-1993 / Media analyst
• Various Hotels & Restaurants / USA & AUS /
1986-1989 / Bar & food hospitality

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Freelance Contractor, Economist & Manager
Markets, Policy, Pricing, Regulation & Utilities
2001-2013 (full-time)
Key Clients (as per my other CV):
• Horizon Power / Perth WA AUS / 2013
• Vector / Auckland NZ / 2012-2013
• Unitywater / Caboolture QLD AUS / 2012
• QR National (Aurizon) / Brisbane QLD AUS /
2011-2012
• KPMG / Brisbane QLD AUS / 2011
• IPA Economics / Edinburgh SCO & London
ENG UK / early 2008 & 2009 late
Key Projects (sample):
• Water Industry Commission for Scotland /
Stirling SCO UK / mid 2008-2009 mid
• slEconomics / Sydney NSW AUS/ 2007-2008
• Sydney Airport / Sydney NSW AUS / 2007
• Power & Water Corporation / Darwin NT
AUS / 2005-2006
• Energy Users Association of Australia /
Melbourne VIC AUS / 2004-2005
• Tourism Queensland / Brisbane QLD AUS /
2002-2003
• Australian Competition & Consumer
Commission / Melbourne VIC AUS / 2001-
2002
Arthur Andersen
Senior Consultant
Sydney NSW AUS
2000-2001 (full-time)
Queensland Competition Authority
Senior Economist
Brisbane QLD AUS
1998-2000 (full-time)
New South Wales Treasury
Economist & Financial Analyst
Sydney NSW AUS
1995-1998 (full-time)
Northern Territory Treasury
Graduate Intern Economist
Darwin NT AUS
1994-1995 (full-time)
Training
On-Camera TV Interviews Training
Leadership Institute
Arlington VA USA
2013 & 2014
Political Leadership Training
Leadership Institute
Arlington VA USA
2013
Think Tank Leadership Training
Atlas Network
NYC NY USA
2013
Mastering Public Speaking Training
Dale Carnegie
Sydney NSW AUS
2007
Regulatory Economics Training
Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics (ANU)
Darwin NT AUS
2005-2006
Cost Benefit Analysis Training
Institute of Public Administration Australia (UQ)
Brisbane QLD AUS
2003-2004
Web Publications
• Hidden tax of regulation article
• A Time for Choosing blog
• UK v Australia competition reforms article
• Natural monopoly utilities regulation article
• Cost of living article (published in 2013, but
written in 2011)
• Airport pricing & rents submission (appA
attachA … word search “rent”)
• Australian carbon tax repeal article
• Senate v EPA energy regulation article
• Environmental regulation & other articles
(dozens & counting)
• Michigan mining resurgence article
• Dutch wind power subsidies article
• Ogallala water aquifer reform article
• State parks privitization article
• Chesapeake Bay property rights article
• Regulatory survey & results report (co-
authored)
• President Obama policy critique article
• Water competition & reform article

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THINK TANK VISION
Over time I intend to start a new think tank (or a new area within an existing think tank) devoted to
smaller government (including public utilities deregulation), mainly but not exclusively from the
perspective of the Austrian School of economics, ethics, history, law and methodology. In the meantime,
I plan on starting an Austrian economics society (or similar) by the middle of this year.
In a ‘nut shell’, my think tank vision includes:
• using Austrian School economics, ethics, history and law to better help win ‘minds’ and ‘hearts’
(with greater empathy, positivity and reality) to continually shrink Big Government over time;
• understanding that Big Government regulation and deregulation has largely been underserved by
think tanks and others, as well as being still in its relative academic infancy (Austrian, Public Choice,
Transaction Costs, etc);
• understanding that Big Government owned and/or dominated public utilities have even more so been
underserved by think tanks and others, as well as being still in its relative academic infancy when it
comes to deregulation as opposed to regulation, despite its long history, being more quantifiable, and
impacting virtually every household and business;
• leveraging my practical experience in and around public utilities, regulation and deregulation, along
with my ever increasing knowledge of Austrian and mainstream economics, ethics, history and law;
• drawing upon neglected and ‘eye-opening history’, such as that of ‘not so’ natural monopolies;
• creating new economic frameworks for regulation and deregulation over time (more so qualitative
than quantitative), that build on existing Austrian and Neoclassical ones (noting that many of the
latter’s ones unintentionally better describe Big Government than free markets);
• developing and evolving ‘catchy’ and ‘easy-to-understand’ communication approaches and tools, such
as my realities, principles or ‘Catch-22s’ (or 10-for-22) of Big Government, Utilities and Liberty.
The 10-for-22 of Big Government
#1 Liberty and property are the keys to wealth, responsibility and charity … not Big Government
#2 Prices and information are best created and discovered in free market exchange … not through
Big Government interventions
#3 Progress is driven by entrepreneurs taking-on uncertainty with innovation and capital … not
through Big Government interventions
#4 Rule-of-law (eg decentralized common law) tends to reduce uncertainty and help solve problems
… Big Government ruled-by-law tends not to
#5 Many Big Government interventions try to solve problems created by previous such
interventions
#6 Regardless of intentions, most Big Government interventions tend to benefit the few at the
expense of the many
#7 Most Big Government burdens are not just the proverbial ‘tip of the iceberg’, but are unseen,
deep and large … not the compliance costs on business, but the unintended negative consequences
on the economy
#8 The current stock as well as the ongoing flow of Big Government interventions needs to be
slowed, stopped and reversed
#9 More and better Big Government reform tools are needed beyond cost-benefit-analysis,
including learning from non-crony businesses and heterodox economics, both domestic and foreign
#10 Better understanding and more passion will be required from top-down politicos and thought-
leaders and especially from bottom-up families, consumers, businesses, volunteers, voters &
secceeders
The little known history of public utilities such as electricity and gas, in the US at least, teaches that
there was plenty of effective competition prior to the less effective competitors lobbying for market
protection regulation in exchange for economic oversight regulation. In fact, the regulation of such so
called natural monopolies started decades before the theory and main economic justification was created.
Such regulation first started federally with rail in the 1870s, and at state level with utilities from 1907 in
Wisconsin. The most modern forms of utility regulation were much later adopted in the UK from the
1980s, and Australia and elsewhere from the 1990s. The economic paradox is, even if a public utility
monopoly were indeed natural – ie could produce at a lower total cost than all others, actual and potential
– it would still not be in need of all of the other types of regulations, intentionally or unintentionally,
preventing entry and rivalry in these markets and even those upstream and downstream as well.