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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Sometimes, it's right on front of your eyes ...

 The authors of this piece have failed to apply Occam's Razor in interpreting the central empirical finding.

https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/ai-models-rate-right-think-tanks-lower-in-terms-of-morality-objectivity-and-quality-than-those-on-the-left/?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAGchMtTUmRXDQROqU8GZXoqTJzY5Xm_qtjwy4zmjGFL9lj4wOIiJtl_bWEJ0T0FTcJMpF1leoF076D4S75xq5tb36Twe-51sKCUv5OkZFrSwvtsk64&fbclid=IwY2xjawMbK1xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFHeEhKZ1dJU0hpMlNFbjcyAR5ptk54Gxvty419TblyAFOaASEoqA57K6TmNCA5kzu2v9VgFYJw6b5izN_mnw_aem_scPhkd4CmrMePpEOfljTbQ

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  • Bonfires of the American Dream
  • Literature and Inequality
  • Fixing U.S. International Taxation
  • Getting It
  • Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax
  • Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy
  • Do Deficits Matter?
  • Making Sense of Social Security Reform
  • Who Should Pay for Medicare?
  • When Rules Change
  • Corporate Tax Shelters in a Global Economy
  • Federalism in Taxation: The Case for Greater Uniformity
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About Me

Daniel Shaviro
New York, New York, United States
I am the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School. My research mainly emphasizes tax policy, government transfers, budgetary measures, social insurance, and entitlements reform. My most recent books are (1) Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009) and (2) Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy (2006). My other books include Do Deficits Matter? (1997), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy (2006), Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009), and Fixing the U.S. International Tax Rules (forthcoming). I am also the author of a novel, Getting It. I am married with two children (boys aged 24 and 21) as well as three cats. For my wife Pat's quilting blog, see Patwig’s Blog.
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