Speaker biographies
Steven J. Davis studies the effect of taxes on work activity, the creation and loss of jobs, the employment impact of wage-setting rules, and other labor market issues. He is a professor of international business and economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously taught at Brown University and MIT and served as a consultant and researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. As a visiting scholar at AEI, Davis will study how tax differences in states and countries lead to differences in employment, household work, and leisure time.
Kevin A. Hassett is the director of economic policy studies and a resident scholar at AEI. He is also a weekly columnist for Bloomberg. Before joining AEI, Mr. Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He was an economic adviser to the George W. Bush campaign in the 2004 presidential election and was the chief economic adviser to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) during the 2000 primaries. He has served as a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury during both the former Bush and Clinton administrations. Mr. Hassett is a member of the Joint Committee on Taxation’s Dynamic Scoring Advisory Panel. He is the author, co-author, or editor of six books on economics and economic policy, including the AEI book on tax reform, Toward Fundamental Tax Reform (2005). He has published scholarly articles in The American Economic Review, The Economic Journal, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and many other professional journals. His popular writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, the Washington Post, and numerous other outlets. His economic commentaries are regularly aired on radio and television, including recent appearances on the Today Show, CBS’s Morning Show, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Hardball, Moneyline, and Power Lunch.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and holds the Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the sixth director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). He has spent his professional career as an economist in academia and government and is on leave from Syracuse University, where he holds the post of trustee professor of economics at the Maxwell School. His previous positions at Syracuse include chairman of the Department of Economics and associate director of the Center for Policy Research. Before his positions at Syracuse University, he held academic posts at Columbia University and Princeton University. Prior to joining CBO, Mr. Holtz-Eakin served for eighteen months as chief economist of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He also served as senior staff economist for the council in 1989 and 1990. In addition, he has been a faculty research fellow and research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Economics Advisory Panel to the National Science Foundation, and a visiting scholar at AEI. At the state level, he has served as a consultant for commissions and agencies in Arizona, New York, and New Jersey. Mr. Holtz-Eakin has a broad interest in the economics of public policy. He has studied the role of federal taxes in home ownership, the contribution of inventories to the business cycle, and a wide variety of topics in state and local government finance. Recently, his research has centered around the economics of fundamental tax reform; the effects of public infrastructure on productivity; income mobility in the United States; and the role of families, capital markets, health insurance, and tax policy in the success of business ventures. Mr. Holtz-Eakin has served as editor of the National Tax Journal and has been a member of the editorial boards of a wide range of economic journals, including Economics and Politics, Small Business Economics, Journal of Sports Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Public Works Management and Policy.
Louis Uchitelle is an economics Writer for The New York Times. He has been writing about business, labor and economics for The Times since 1987 and was the lead reporter for the paper’s series “The Downsizing of America,” which won a George Polk Award in 1996. Prior to joining The Times in 1980, Uchitelle worked as a reporter, a foreign correspondent and the editor of the business news department at the Associated Press. He has taught at Columbia University and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York in 2002–2003. His book, The Disposable American: Layoffs and their Consequences was published by Knopf in 2006.
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