What's Government Good For?: Fiscal Policy in an Age of Inequality
Event Date
2-5-2018
Repository Citation
Kleinbard, Edward D., "What's Government Good For?: Fiscal Policy in an Age of Inequality" (2018). Sibley Lecture Series. 89.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_sibley/89
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Program
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Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom (343) - Hirsch Hall
Edward D. Kleinbard, the holder of the Packard Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Fellow at The Century Foundation, idelivered the University of Georgia School of Law’s 115th Sibley Lecture titled “What’s a Government Good For?: Fiscal Policy in an Age of Inequality.”
Kleinbard, whose scholarship focuses on the taxation of capital income, international tax issues and the political economy of taxation, was one of four individuals honored as a 2016 International Tax Person of the Year by the nonpartisan policy organization Tax Analysts. He is the author of We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money and, in 2017, Kleinbard co-authored the leading law school introductory income tax casebook. He has testified before Congress on tax policy matters and has written opinion pieces for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Financial Times and other media outlets.