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The following is the text of some brief remarks that I offered at a conference in Berkeley last Friday honoring Alan Auerbach upon his retir...

  The authors of this piece have failed to apply Occam's Razor in interpreting the central empirical finding. https://www.aei.org/resear...

I have three new articles coming out shortly. The first, in Tax Notes International next Monday (but already available behind a paywall onli...

I had a sabbatical this past spring, and thus haven't been in a classroom since the end of fall 2024. One way I've used the time is ...

This one goes as follows: "Pure gold. Easily the most honest memoir I've ever read: bracingly real, sharply funny, and deeply human...

  Unexpectedly warm and insightful portrait of the Baby Boom Generation . (5 stars) Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2025 Verified ...

I gather that the GOP score of the Senate tax bill DOES show budgetary costs as being lowered by the expiration of new provisions (such as t...

  The paperback version of my memoir, Now Is Now and Then Is Then, is now available on Amazon for $7.99. Kindle version is $4.99 or free if ...

My memoir, "Now Is Now and Then Is Then," has gone live on Kindle for a mere $4.99. 

Today I self-published my memoir, Now Is Now and Then Is Then, on Kindle Direct Publishing. Kindle price $4.99, but not available for perhap...

 Over the last few months, I've written a fairly interesting and unique literary work (if I do say so myself). It's a memoir, coveri...

With the start of NYU's fall 2024 semester, I thought I should offer an update here on the public sessions at our 2024 Tax Policy Colloq...

About 18 months ago (I remember the time because I was visiting at U Va Law School), I briefly got interested in how Chat GPT makes things u...

Today the Supreme Court released its decision in Moore v. United States , upholding the 2017 tax act's mandatory repatriation tax (MRT) ...

  I just posted this piece on a libertarian-affiliated U of Chicago website. Based on a 2013 article that I wrote concerning Henry Simons. ...

  Presented without comment, part of a spam email that I got today, pertaining to a (co-authored) casebook for introductory federal income t...

It occurred to me recently that my two favorite pop songwriters of the last 25 years - Fiona Apple and Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields)...

In a prior post, I had mentioned that the 2024 NYU Tax Policy Colloquium might need to shift to a new time, due to changes in the law school...

Yesterday, in the last session of the 2023 NYU Tax Policy Colloquium, Edward Fox co-presented his paper (co-authored by Benjamin Pyle), Who ...

 Yesterday, at our penultimate public session for 2023, we discussed a pair of items  (one already published, and one an early partial draft...