--- title: Jeffrey Miron | TIME description: Jeffrey Miron is a professor of economics at Harvard University and director of economic studies at the Cato Institute. canonical: https://time.com/author/jeffrey-miron/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/jeffrey-miron/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jeffrey Miron ## Jeffrey Miron _Jeffrey Miron is a professor of economics at Harvard University and director of economic studies at the Cato Institute._ ## Jeffrey Miron *  Jan 21, 2016 ### [El Chapo Shows the Folly of the War on Drugs](https://time.com/4187449/el-chapo-war-on-drugs/) Drug prohibition isn’t the answer [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 28, 2014 ### [An Economic and Moral Case for Legalizing Cocaine and Heroin](https://time.com/3030835/an-economic-and-moral-case-for-legalizing-cocaine-and-heroin/) Criminalization comes at a large cost--elevated prices, impurities, and the vagaries of black market... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-miron/","name":"Jeffrey Miron"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-miron/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-miron/"},"name":"Jeffrey Miron","jobTitle":"","description":"Jeffrey Miron is a professor of economics at Harvard University and director of economic studies at the Cato Institute.","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-miron/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```