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  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Party in Massachusetts. 1860s and 1870s: Opposition to Chinese immigrants in the US culminated in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned the entry and the re-entry of Chinese immigrants for more than 70 years. 1910s and 1920s: Congress introduced literacy tests... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

including working- and middle-class Americans, are struggling, as are many small businesses. The single biggest thorn in the economy’s side: our dysfunctional political system. While many political leaders individually agree with the federal View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Oct 2010
  • News

Jobs Bill Misses Mark

Sometimes good politics and good policy just don’t mix. Take the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama recently signed, for example. A bill that purports to create jobs is good politics just before a midterm election. But HBS... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • Sep 2016
  • Survey

Problems Unsolved & A Nation Divided

calls for a national economic strategy for America and proposes federal policy priorities that can form the core of such a strategy. Further, the report highlights corporate and personal tax reform as a... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

How Green Was My (Silicon) Valley

Doerr’s VC firm, Kleiner Perkins, has invested have received government tax credits, contracts, and loan guarantees. But Doerr distinguishes himself from past practitioners of the energy influence game in Washington. “I have referred to... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

The Myth of Laissez-Faire

fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Letters to the Editor

Bloomfield Hills, MI A Taxing Question Regarding his My Two Cents column, “My Beautiful Capital Gain,” in the March issue, I’d ask this of Dal LaMagna (MBA 1970): The money you invested was already taxed... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

person. One interpretation is that personal attributes correlated with wages should be considered more widely for determining taxes. Alternatively, if policies such as a height tax are rejected, then the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 6

Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract Should the income tax include... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • News

Carbon Neutral

as well as reduce the corporate tax rate, a longtime goal of congressional Republicans. The idea was the brainchild of Eacho and George Frampton, a lawyer who worked on environmental issues at Covington & Burling and former environmental... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2007 Abstract Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

and the size of the implicit government subsidy that coming from tax deferral in IRAs and 401(k)s make this question a first-order public policy issue. In both this literature and in the literature on asset... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

more redistribution. One reason for that is the top bracket used to contain 0.1 percent of the taxpayers and now has 1 percent of the population. This creates resistance to increased top marginal rates. Finally, the usual guiding lights of equity and efficiency in... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the intratemporal and intertemporal margins. I use detailed numerical simulations, calibrated with data from the U.S. PSID, to generate robust View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST, 11 Jan 2017
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided

Five years of research from Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project, as well as the findings from the 2016 surveys on US competitiveness, present a sobering picture of the deep structural challenges facing the United States. The US needs a national... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

  PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

rather than what they want? Is it reasonable for employers to be allowed a tax benefit for paying for health insurance benefits, but not their employees, when the insurance is primarily funded through reductions in employee income? Must... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance
  • 22 Sep 2015
  • News

Working on the Local Level

Aaron Chadbourne (JD/MBA 2010) accepted an offer from Maine’s governor to put his MBA to work tackling some of his home state’s toughest issues—from high taxes and an aging population to business development. In this video, he explains... View Details
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne