Talk:Edward McCaffery

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Edward McCaffery (born c. 1959) is a tax law professor at USC Law School and a visiting professor of Law and Economics at Caltech.


 * summa cum laude in something — Yale University
 * J.D. magna cum laude — Harvard Law School
 * master's degree in economics — USC

He is an internationally recognized expert in tax law.

McCaffery studies:
 * tax policy
 * tax structures
 * public finance theory
 * including behavioral public finance
 * property law and theory
 * intellectual property
 * law and economics

Ventures


 * clerk to Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz — New Jersey Supreme Court
 * attorney with Titchell, Maltzman, Mark, Bass, Ohleyer & Mishel
 * USC Law faculty — from 1989
 * visiting professor of law and economics at Caltech — from 1994
 * chaired the USC Institute on Federal Taxation — from 1997
 * founded the USC–Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics
 * served as its director from 2000–2003
 * elected fellow of the American Law Institute
 * elected fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel
 * Senior Counsel in the Los Angeles office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP
 * official consultant to the Russian Federation to help design a comprehensive tax code

Books


 * A New Understanding of Property — forthcoming
 * Fair Not Flat: How to Make the Tax System Better and Simpler — advocating a progressive consumption tax based on spending rather than income
 * Taxing Women — discussing the gender inequity of the current United States income tax code which penalizes working women

Bibliography


 * "Cognitive Theory and Tax"
 * "Framing the Jury: Cognitive Perspectives on Pain and Suffering Awards" — with Daniel Kahneman and Matthew Spitzer
 * "Slouching Towards Equality: Gender Discrimination, Market Efficiency, and Social Change"
 * Behavioral Public Finance — co-editor
 * Rethinking the Vote: The Politics and Prospects of American Election Reform ­— co-editor

Obviously, I greatly favour bullet points for rapid internal consumption, and I don't give a rat's ass about named chairs. (Is the chair named for a paragon worthy of recollection and adoration, or is the chair named for a Big Ivy benefactor purchasing moral absolution? If it's somehow our problem to muddle through the incredibly large difference, who ordered that?)

At Wikipedia, his books and bibliography might be better combined. &mdash; MaxEnt 21:37, 22 December 2022 (UTC)