Edward Kleinbard

Edward Kleinbard

Edward D. Kleinbard sadly succumbed to cancer shortly after submitting the final manuscript for his book, What’s Luck Got to Do With It. Until his passing, he was the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law at the USC’s Gould School of Law, and a Fellow at The Century Foundation. Prior to those appointments, Professor Kleinbard served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation, the non-partisan tax resource to Congress, and for more than thirty years in private practice as a renowned international tax expert.

Books

What's Luc Got to Do With It

What’s Luck Got to Do With It? by Edward Kleinbard

What’s Luck Got to Do With It? | How Smarter Government Can Rescue The American Dream by Edward Kleinbard examines the impact of brute luck in life.  Like it or not, our lives and opportunities are determined largely by luck. Kleinbard shows that while we can't undo every instance of misfortune, we can offer a path to not just a fairer America, but greater economic growth, more broadly shared.
We Are Better Than This by Edward Kleinbard

We Are Better Than This by Edward Kleinbard

We Are Better Than This | How Government Should Spend Our Money by Edward Kleinbard discusses new ways for government money to be spent in order to best further American society. The author unmasks the tax mythologies and false arguments that too often dominate contemporary discourse about budget policies.