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Jean-Luc Migué, born in Saint-Jacques (Québec), is a Canadian economist. He is a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute of Vancouver and at the Montreal Economic Institute.
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Education
Migué graduated in 1953, with a cum laude mention, from the Collège de l'Assomption and holds a master’s degree in economics from the Université de Montréal. From 1958 to 1960, he was a research student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1968, he received a PhD in economics from the American University of Washington.
Career
Migué is an international expert on public choice theory. He has been a professor at Université Laval and l’École nationale d’administration publique (ÉNAP), a researcher at the Bank of Canada and the Economic Council of Canada, and chairman of the Academic Board of the Montreal Economic Institute.
He has been a member of many working groups and a consultant for several public and private organisations. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
He has also been a member of the Canadian Economics Association, the Canadian Society of Economic Science, the Public Choice Society and the American Economic Association. Moreover, he often participates in public debates in newspapers, news magazines, and radio and television broadcasts.
Filmography
He is featured in the documentary The Encirclement in which he outlined his libertarian arguments. One of his points is that particular family allowances paid to single women raising children leads women to have children outside marriage.