Alan J. Auerbach (born in 1951) is an American economist. He is currently the director of the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He received his undergraduate degree in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

and mathematics from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

and earned his Ph.D. in economics at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

and was an assistant and then an associate professor at Harvard. He was then a professor of law and economics at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. Auerbach is a fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...

and of the

Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians. ...

. He was the Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation in 1992. He is the author of many articles, books, and reviews. He is the past, or present, editor of six journals including the ''

Journal of Economic Literature The ''Journal of Economic Literature'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal, published by the American Economic Association, that surveys the academic literature in economics. It was established in 1963 as the ''Journal of Economic Abstracts'',

'', '' American Economic Review'', '' National Tax Journal'', and ''International Tax and Public Finance''.

Selected books

* (1987) "''Handbook of Public Economics''". Elsevier Science Limited. . * (1998) Auerbach, and Kotlikoff, "''Macroeconomics: An Integrated Approach''".

MIT Press The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States). It was established in 1962. History The MIT Press traces its origins back to 1926 when MIT publish ...

. . * (2007) "''Taxing Corporate Income in the 21st Century''".

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer. Cambridge University Pre ...

. .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Auerbach, Alan J. Living people 21st-century American economists Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Harvard University faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty Fellows of the Econometric Society Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1951 births Auerbach family UC Berkeley School of Law faculty