Why Should Only the Tax Code Be Fair? (Zach Liscow)

Zachary Liscow is an associate professor of law at Yale Law School. His main research interest is understanding the appropriate policy levers to address income inequality and, in particular, the role that tax policy versus other legal rules should play. He also works in a variety of other areas, including urban economics, environmental policy, and empirical legal studies. Liscow earned his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and his JD from Yale Law School. He has been a staff economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and worked for the World Bank's inspector general.

Our student quote is by Rebecca Arnall from New York, NY.

Resources:

1. Professor Liscow’s bio.
2. Daniel Shaviro’s blog post about Liscow’s visit to the NYU Tax Policy Colloquium.
3. Is Efficiency Biased? 85 University of Chicago Law Review 1649 (2018)
4. The pencil question: Thomas J. Brennan, Perils of Partial Mark-to-Market Taxation.
5. The student quote is: "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing."—Jean Baptist Colbert