Does Atlas shrug? : the economic consequences of taxing the rich / Joel B. Slemrod, editor.
2000
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Title
Does Atlas shrug? : the economic consequences of taxing the rich / Joel B. Slemrod, editor.
Published
New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
Call Number
HJ2322.A3 D64 2000
ISBN
0674001540
Description
524 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)42771320
Note
"This volume contains fifteen papers that were prepared as part of a research project on the economic consequences of taxing the rich sponsored by the Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR) at the University of Michigan Business School. The papers examine the history and current environment of U.S. tax policy toward the ... Most of the papers were presented at a conference attended by academics, policymakers, and journalists held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in October of 1997"--Pref.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Pt. I
History and Background
1
Ch. 1The Economics of Taxing the Rich / Joel B. Slemrod
3
Ch. 2Historical Perspective on U.S. Tax Policy Toward the Rich / W. Elliot Brownlee
29
Ch. 3Who Are the Rich? A Demographic Profile of High-Income and High-Wealth Americans / Edward N. Wolff
74
Ch. 4The Tax Environment Facing the Wealthy / Douglas A. Shackelford
114
Pt. II
New Empirical Evidence on Behavioral Response
139
Ch. 5It's Not About the Money: Why Natural Experiments Don't Work on the Rich / Austan Goolsbee
141
Commentary on Chapter 5 / Terry Shevlin
159
Ch. 6Are the Rich Different? / James Alm Sally Wallace
165
Commentary on Chapter 6 / Daniel Feenberg
188
Ch. 7Taxation and the Labor Supply Decisions of the Affluent / Robert A. Moffitt Mark O. Wilhelm
193
Commentary on Chapter 7 / Christopher R. Taber
235
Ch. 8Are "Real" Responses to Taxes Simply Income Shifting Between Corporate and Personal Tax Bases? / Roger H. Gordon Joel B. Slemrod
240
Commentary on Chapter 8 / David F. Bradford
281
Ch. 9Portfolio Responses to Taxation: Evidence from the End of the Rainbow / Andrew A. Samwick
289
Commentary on Chapter 9 / James R. Hines, Jr.
324
Ch. 10The Estate Tax and After-Tax Investment Returns / James M. Poterba
329
Commentary on Chapter 10 / William G. Gale
350
Ch. 11Capital Gains Taxation and Tax Avoidance: New Evidence from Panel Data / Alan J. Auerbach Leonard E. Burman Jonathan M. Siegel
355
Commentary on Chapter 11 / Jane G. Gravelle
389
Ch. 12Taxes and Philanthropy Among the Wealthy / Gerald E. Auten Charles T. Clotfelter Richard L. Schmalbeck
392
Commentary on Chapter 12 / John B. Shoven
425
Ch. 13Entrepreneurs, Income Taxes, and Investment / Robert Carroll Douglas Holtz-Eakin Mark Rider [et al.]
427
Commentary on Chapter 13 / R. Glenn Hubbard
456
Pt. III
Alternative Perspectives
463
Ch. 14Why Do the Rich Save So Much? / Christopher D. Carroll
465
Commentary on Chapter 14 / Stephen P. Zeldes
485
Ch. 15Progressive Taxation and the Incentive Problem / Robert H. Frank
490
Contributors
508
Index
511