Edward D. Kleinbard sadly passed away from cancer shortly after completing the final manuscript for his book, What’s Luck Got to Do With It. At the time of his death, he held the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law at USC’s Gould School of Law and was a Fellow at The Century Foundation. Before these roles, Professor Kleinbard was Chief of Staff for the U.S. Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation—a non-partisan tax advisory body—and spent over thirty years in private practice as a distinguished international tax expert.
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 | 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.
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