Taxation
Why American Voters Are Still Not Ready to Support Carbon Taxes
Economists and policy elites love carbon taxes, but voters dislike them. A new study suggests that ideology has a lot to do with it....
Study: Political Connections Lower Companies’ Tax Rates and Risk of Being Audited
How does the revolving door between Congress and corporate America affect the enforcement of tax policy? A new study examines how tax rates change...
Reducing Wealth Inequality Through Wealth Taxes Without Compromising Economic Growth
New research proposes two ways of using wealth taxes to reduce inequality and increase efficiency.
Economic inequality has risen significantly within major economies around the...
How to Even Out the Pains and Gains from International Trade
The idea of creating transfer schemes to compensate the losers from international trade yet still preserve some of the gains faces a myriad of...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (May 4–May 12)
A whistleblower alleges fraud in the audits of Silicon Valley companies; AT&T acknowledges that hiring Michael Cohen was a "bad mistake"; new analysis finds that...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 10–Feb. 17)
This week in political economy.
Yesterday's New York Times editorial: “The terror that has gripped their elected officials … is fear of the wealthy gun...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 22– Jan. 5)
This week in political economy.
In Project Syndicate, Joseph Stiglitz writes about the GOP’s recently-passed tax package, which he dubs “The US Donor Relief...
The Trump Tax
Will Donald Trump follow through on his populist campaign promises? The stock market can tell us a lot about the President-elect's economic policies.Â
President-elect Donald Trump broke...
One Happy Byproduct of 2016: An Overdue Tax Policy Debate
Rich people are much richer than they used to be in large part because they pay much less tax than they used to. This—not...
Donald Trump and the Political Economy of Real Estate Tax in the US: Q&A With Professor Edward Kleinbard
Edward Kleinbard from the University of Southern California explains how Donald Trump was potentially able to lose nearly a billion dollars of his investors’...
