Contributors
W. Elliot Brownlee is professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a specialist in economic history and the history of public finance, and is the author of Federal Taxation in America: A Short History (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1966). He is currently writing a history of the financing of World War I and editing a book on Ronald Reagan's presidency.
David Brunori is a contributing editor for State Tax Notes magazine and the author of "The Politics of State Taxation," a weekly column on state tax and budget politics. He is a research professor of public policy at the George Washington University, where he also teaches state and local tax law at the university's law school. His recent books include State Tax Policy: A Political Perspective (2001) and The Future of State Taxation (1998), both published by the Urban Institute Press.
Barbara H. Fried is professor of law and Deane Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. She has written extensively on tax policy and issues of distributive justice. She is the author of The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire (Harvard University Press, 1998), an intellectual history of the law and economics movement in the early part of the 20th century.
Carolyn C. Jones is a professor of law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Her research focuses on the legal history of taxation in the United States. She has written articles on such subjects as the development of the joint return, the use of public relations in selling the mass federal income tax, and taxation arguments in the woman suffrage movement.
Richard A. Musgrave worked at the Federal Reserve Board during the 1940s, taught at the University of Michigan during the 1950s, and retired from Harvard University in 1980. He is now an adjunct professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His major publications include The Theory of Public Finance (McGraw-Hill, 1959), Public Finance in Theory and Practice, with P. B. Musgrave (McGraw-Hill, 1973), and Public Finance in a Democratic Society-Collected Papers (New York University Press, 1986-2000). Along with academic pursuits, he has been an active participant in public affairs and the conduct of tax missions in developing countries.
Daniel Shaviro is professor of law at New York University Law School. His research interests include tax policy, public economics, social insurance, and budget policy. His recent publications include Do Deficits Matter? (1997), When Rules Change (2000), and Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), all published by the University of Chicago Press.
C. Eugene Steuerle is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a columnist for Tax Notes magazine, president of the National Tax Association (2001-2002), and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax analysis. His books include Social Security and the Family, with Melissa Favreault and Frank Sammartino (2002), and Nonprofits and Government, with Elizabeth Boris (1999), both published by the Urban Institute Press.
Joan M. Youngman is a senior fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, where she chairs the Department of Valuation and Taxation. She is also a research fellow at the Harvard Law School International Tax Program. She has written extensively on property tax issues, and is the author of Legal Issues in Property Valuation and Taxation (International Association of Assessing Officers, 1994).
