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Economist and taxation scholar
Joseph Aaron Pechman
(April 2, 1918 ? August 19, 1989) was a highly influential economist and taxation scholar in the United States.
[1]
He graduated from the
City College of New York
and the
University of Wisconsin?Madison
. He served as president of the
American Economic Association
and was a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
. He was also a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution
.
[2]
Core Ideas
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Pechman advocated
income taxation
,
progressive tax
rates, and
tax reform
.
[3]
He was a major figure in the
Tax Reform Act of 1986
.
Scholarship
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A prolific author, Pechman published influential books such as "Gender in the Workplace"
[4]
and "How Taxes Affect Economic Behavior".
[5]
Personal life
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Pechman was born in
Borowie
,
Poland
, in 1918.
[6]
Pechman was married and had two daughters, Ellen Pechman and Jane Pechman Stern.
References
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- ^
"Joseph A. Pechman is Dead at 71; Aided 1986 Income Tax Changes"
.
The New York Times
. 21 August 1989.
- ^
HighBeam
- ^
Pechman, Joseph A. (1990). "A Conversation with Joseph A. Pechman".
Eastern Economic Journal
.
16
(1): 1?7.
JSTOR
40326218
.
- ^
"Gender in the Workplace - 1987, Page iii by Joseph A. Pechman, Clair Brown, Heidi I. Hartmann, Lourdes Beneria, Richard B. Freeman, Jonathan S. Leonard, Karen C. Holden, W. Lee Hansen, Barbara R. Bergmann, Mark D. Roberts, Charles Brown, Shirley J. Wilcher"
. Archived from
the original
on 2007-11-19
. Retrieved
2017-09-02
.
- ^
"How Taxes Affect Economic Behavior - 1981, Page iii"
.
[
dead link
]
- ^
"Pechman, Joseph Aaron"
.
The Biographical Dictionary of American Economists
. Continuum. 2006.
doi
:
10.1093/acref/9780199754748.001.0001
.
ISBN
9780199754748
.
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