Joel Slemrod

Joel Slemrod is a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research, an interdisciplinary research center housed at the Business School. In 1983-84 he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and in 1984-85 he was the senior economist for tax policy at the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He’s been at Michigan since 1987.

Professor Slemrod has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and several foreign governments, as well as to Marriott International and Merck & Co., Inc. He has been a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers, and has testified before the Congress on domestic and international taxation issues. From 1992 to 1998 Professor Slemrod was editor of the National Tax Journal, and from 2006 to 2010 was co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. In 2005-6, he was president of the National Tax Association, and from 2015 to 2018 president of the Interenational Institute of Public Finance. He is co-author with Jon Bakija of Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen’s Guide to the Debate over Taxes, whose fifth edition was published in 2017, and with Len Burman of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know, whose second edition was published in 2020. His latest book is Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisom through the Ages, co-authored with Michael Keen, which will appear in 2021. In 2012 he received from the National Tax Association its most prestigious award, the Daniel M. Holland Medal for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study and practice of public finance.