
Joel Slemrod is the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate
Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the
Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of
Michigan, and Professor of Economics in the Department
of Economics. He also serves as Director of the Office
of Tax Policy Research, an interdisciplinary research
center housed at the Business School.
Professor Slemrod received the A.B. degree from
Princeton University in 1973 and a Ph.D. in economics
from Harvard University in 1980. He joined the economics
department at the University of Minnesota in 1979. In
1983-84 he was a National Fellow at the Hoover
Institution and in 1984-85 he was the senior staff
economist for tax policy at the President’s Council of
Economic Advisers.
Professor Slemrod has been a consultant to the U.S.
Department of the Treasury, the Canadian Department of
Finance, the New Zealand Department of Treasury, the
South Africa Ministry of Finance, the World Bank, and
the OECD. He has testified before the Congress on
domestic and international taxation issues.
From 1992 to 1998 Professor Slemrod was editor of the
National Tax Journal, the leading academic journal
devoted to the theory and practice of taxation. He is
the author of numerous academic articles and editor of
the books Do Taxes Matter? The Impact of the Tax
Reform Act of 1986, Taxation in the Global Economy, Why
People Pay Taxes: Tax Compliance and Enforcement,
Studies in International Taxation, Tax Progressivity and
Income Inequality, The Taxation of Multinational
Corporations, Tax Policy in the Real World, Does Atlas
Shrug? The Economics of Taxing the Rich, Rethinking
Estate and Gift Taxation, The Crisis in Tax
Administration, Fiscal Reform in Colombia: Problems and
Prospects, Behavioral Public Finance, and Taxing
Corporate Income in the 21st Century. He is the
co-author with Jon Bakija of Taxing Ourselves: A
Citizen’s Guide to the Debate over Taxes, whose 4th
edition will be published in 2007.
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