![handle is hein.cow/anamacp0675 and id is 1 raw text is: Independent
Workers: What
Role for Public
Policy?
By
ALAN B. KRUEGER
Jwould like to begin by thanking Senator
Mark Warner for his kind introduction. I am
particularly appreciative that he took the time
to come here this afternoon given all the other
critical work he is doing. He has taken the lead-
ership in Congress-and I would say in the
Nation-on emerging workplace issues. He
called me late last year, just after I read the
news that he was appointed Vice Chairman of
the Senate Intelligence Committee, and I con-
gratulated him on his new position, and he
responded by saying something like: Thanks,
but I'd much rather spend my time developing
policies that are appropriate for independent
workers in the emerging gig economy. I also
want to thank Ken Prewitt for his remarks and
the American Academy of Political and Social
Science for selecting me for this prestigious
award and for giving me the opportunity to
present the Moynihan Lecture today.1
To be associated with Daniel Patrick
Moynihan is a tremendous honor. I was inspired
by his career and one connection I have always
felt that I have with Senator Moynihan is that
his career in the federal government began at
the U.S. Department of Labor as Assistant
Secretary for Policy, Planning and Research.
That position was actually created for him.
When Bob Reich asked me to be Chief
Economist of the Labor Department in 1994
Alan B. Krueger is the Bendheim Prof essor of Economics
and Public Policy at Princeton University. He has
published widely on the economics of education,
unemployment, labor demand, income inequality, and
social insurance. He served as Chairman of President
Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers and was
a member of his cabinet from 2011 to 2013. He was also
Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief
Economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in
2009-JO, and Chief Economist at the U.S. Department
of Labor in 1994-95.
Correspondence: akrueger@princeton.edu
DOI: 10.1177/0002716217741109
ANNALS, AAPSS, 675, January 2018
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