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Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Professor of Law, Economics and Political Science

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Present	Chair, Program for Law & Technology at Caltech and Loyola Law School, California Institute of Technology
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Present	Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology
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Present	Founder, USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law & Politics, University of Southern California Law
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Law and Economics

Tax law, Tax reform, Public finance theory, including behavioral public finance, Election and voting reform, and Intellectual property

Fellow, American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel
Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel
Fellow, American Law Institute
Member, National Tax Association
Member, American Economic Association
Member, American Law & Economics Association

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USC Gould School of Law
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Articles (3)

Taxing Wealth Seriously

The Tax Law Review (NYU) (2017)

Edward J. McCaffery

The social and political problems of wealth inequality in America are severe and getting worse. A surprise is that the ...

The Meaning of Capital in the 21st Century

Edward J. McCaffery

America is on a path towards a level of both wealth and income inequality unparalleled in recorded history. Thomas Piketty’s ...

Through the Looking Glass: The Politics of Estate Tax Reform

ACTEC Journal (forthcoming) (2009)

Edward J. McCaffery

This brief article summarizes an argument that the estate tax reform or repeal debate has always been about money: not ...

Unpublished Paper

Behavioral Dimensions of Tax Reform

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2009)

Edward J McCaffery

These are powerpoint slides from a presentation at a joint UCLA-Tax Policy Center Conference on Tax Policy in the Obama ...

Unpublished Paper

The Last Best Hope for Progressivity in Tax

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2009)

Edward J McCaffery and James R. Hines

We argue that a spending tax, as opposed to an income or wage tax, is the “last best hope” for ...

Unpublished Paper

Ten Facts About Fundamental Tax Reform

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2008)

Edward J. McCaffery

This is a written version of testimony given to the Joint Economic Committee in November, 2003, subsequently published in Tax ...

Unpublished Paper

Behavioral Public Finance

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2008)

Edward J. McCaffery

These are slides from a presentation to the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Squaw Valley Conference, May, 2008 ...

Unpublished Paper

Comments on Liebman and Zeckhauser, Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle ...

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2008)

Edward J. McCaffery

These are brief comments on an excellent paper by Jeffrey Liebman and Richard Zeckhauser, prepared for a conference sponsored by ...

Unpublished Paper

A Consumed Income Tax: A Fair and Simple Plan for ...

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2008)

Edward McCaffery

These are slides from a presentation to the President’s Advisory Panel on Tax Reform, given in Washington D.C. on May ...

Unpublished Paper

Where's the Sex in Fiscal Sociology? Taxation and Gender ...

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2008)

Edward J McCaffery

Tax and other fiscal policy systems inevitably affect patterns of work, marriage, household formation, child-bearing, and more. These “micro-level” concerns ...

Unpublished Paper

Behavioral Economics and Fundamental Tax Reform

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2006)

Edward J McCaffery

The most common use of the insights of behavioral economics in the cause of fundamental tax reform has been to ...

Unpublished Paper

A Tale of Two Davids: Commentary on David Weisbach's ...

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2006)

Edward J McCaffery

This brief commentary on David Weisbach’s essay (available on ssrn at http://ssrn.com/abstract=911604) first identifies Weisbach’s contribution as stating an Equivalence ...

Unpublished Paper

The Uneasy Case for Capital Taxation

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2006)

Edward J McCaffery

The traditional view of tax holds that consumption taxes fail to tax the yield to capital, whereas income taxes do, ...

Unpublished Paper

Good Hybrids/Bad Hybrids

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2005)

Edward J McCaffery

Hybrid income-consumption taxes seek to tax some but not all savings, the treatment of savings being the principal difference between ...

Unpublished Paper

A New Understanding of Tax

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2005)

Edward J. McCaffery

A great deal and possibly all of the mind-numbing complexity of America’s largest and least popular tax follows from the ...

Unpublished Paper

The Political Psychology of Redistribution

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2005)

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron

Welfare economics suggests that the tax system is the appropriate place to effect redistribution from those with more command over ...

Unpublished Paper

Three Views of Tax

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2005)

Edward J. McCaffery

Traditional tax policy has been locked in a seemingly all-or-nothing debate between two apparent extremes, income and consumption taxation. But ...

Unpublished Paper

Shakedown at Gucci Gulch: A Tale of Death, Money and ...

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2004)

Edward J. McCaffery and Linda R. Cohen

Ever since Mancur Olson's 1965 classic The Logic of Collective Action was published, the dominant view of politics in the ...

Unpublished Paper

Thinking About Tax

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2004)

Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron

Behavioral economics and cognitive psychology have demonstrated that people deviate from ideal precepts of rationality in many settings, showing inconsistent ...

Unpublished Paper

Starving the beast: The psychology of budget deficits

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2004)

Jonathan Baron and Edward J. McCaffery

Many opponents of big government favor a strategy of "starving the beast," cutting taxes today with the expectation that spending ...

Unpublished Paper

Toward an Agenda for Behavioral Public Finance

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2004)

Edward J. McCaffery and Joel Slemrod

This essay is about the intersection -- or possible intersection -- between the fields of behavioral economics and public finance, ...

Unpublished Paper

Shakedown at Gucci Gulch: A Tale of Death, Money & ...

ExpressO (2004)

Ever since Mancur Olson's The Logic Of Collective Action was published in 1965, if not before, the traditional conception of ...

Unpublished Paper

Masking Redistribution (or its Absence)

University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2004)

Jonathan Baron and Edward J McCaffery

Research has shown that people vary widely in their support or opposition to progressive taxation. We argue here that the ...