- Preface
- Part I: History and Background
- 1. The Economics of Taxing the Rich [Joel B. Slemrod]
- 2. Historical Perspective on U.S. Tax Policy Toward the Rich [W. Elliott Brownlee]
- 3. Who Are the Rich? A Demographic Profile of High-Income and High-Wealth Americans [Edward N. Wolff]
- 4. The Tax Environment Facing the Wealthy [Douglas A. Shackelford]
- Part II: New Empirical Evidence on Behavioral Response
- 5. It’s Not About the Money: Why Natural Experiments Don’t Work on the Rich [Austan Goolsbee]
- Commentary [Terry Shevlin]
- 6. Are the Rich Different? [James Alm and Sally Wallace]
- Commentary [Daniel Feenberg]
- 7. Taxation and the Labor Supply Decisions of the Affluent [Robert A. Moffitt and Mark O. Wilhelm]
- Commentary [Christopher R. Taber]
- 8. Are “Real” Responses to Taxes Simply Income Shifting Between Corporate and Personal Tax Bases? [Roger H. Gordon and Joel B. Slemrod]
- Commentary [David F. Bradford]
- 9. Portfolio Responses to Taxation: Evidence from the End of the Rainbow [Andrew A. Samwick]
- Commentary [James R. Hines Jr.]
- 10. The Estate Tax and After-Tax Investment Returns [James M. Poterba]
- Commentary [William G. Gale]
- 11. Capital Gains Taxation and Tax Avoidance: New Evidence from Panel Data [Alan J. Auerbach, Leonard E. Burman, and Jonathan M. Siegel]
- Commentary [James G. Gravelle]
- 12. Taxes and Philanthropy Among the Wealthy [Gerald E. Auten, Charles T. Clotfelter, and Richard L. Schmalbeck]
- Commentary [John B. Shoven]
- 13. Entrepreneurs, Income Taxes, and Investment [Robert Carroll, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mark Rider, and Harvey S. Rosen]
- Commentary [R. Glenn Hubbard]
- 5. It’s Not About the Money: Why Natural Experiments Don’t Work on the Rich [Austan Goolsbee]
- Part III: Alternative Perspectives
- 14. Why Do the Rich Save So Much? [Christopher D. Carroll]
- Commentary [Stephen P. Zeldes]
- 15. Progressive Taxation and the Incentive Problem [Robert H. Frank]
- 14. Why Do the Rich Save So Much? [Christopher D. Carroll]
- Contributors
- Index
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Does Atlas Shrug?
The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich
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Publication Date: 03/30/2002