Product Description: Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when we turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the pump gas will be plentiful and relatively cheap. In The End of Energy, Michael Graetz shows us that we have been living an energy delusion for forty years...read more

Product Description: This casebook provides detailed information on federal income taxation. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases. The sixth edition covers recent regulations, rulings, cases and other new developments, including the many changes made to the Internal Revenue Code by the more than dozen tax acts that passed since the prior edition...read more

Product Description: This publication supplements Federal Income Taxation, Principles, and Policies, 5th, a casebook that focuses on the policy and practice of the Internal Revenue Code.

Product Description: This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The mystery is all the more striking because the repeal was not done in the dead of night, like a congressional pay raise...read more

Product Description: A Brookings Institution Press and National Academy for Social Insurance publicationIn the debate over Social Security reform, most of the work on individual accounts has focused on how individuals would save and manage those accounts during their working lives...read more

Product Description: This law school casebook extracts materials from scholarly literature on international income tax law and provides context for these materials, to enhance an understanding of the institutions that shape this area of law and underlying policy debates...read more

Product Description: Social insurance in the United States―including the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Medicare, Medicaid, and disability insurance programs that were added later―may be the greatest triumph of American domestic policy. But true security has not been achieved...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A lively history of the American income tax system and the recent revulsion it has spurred in the American public reveals how the tax evolved, how it became a political tool, what the alternatives are, and who most benefits from the current system. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In his 1998 State of the Union address, President Clinton challenged Americans to a public debate about how to fix the long-term financial problems of Social Security. This annual volume of the National Academy of Social Insurance provides a framework for that debate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A Treasury official in the Bush Administration offers an insider's chronicle of the recent history of the tax system, shows how politicians have used it for their own ends, and evaluates the effects of current proposals for tax reform on average taxpayers. (view table of contents)