Daniel Shaviro is the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School. Before teaching law, he spent three years in private practice at Caplin & Drysdale, a leading tax specialty firm, and three years as a legislation attorney at the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation, where he worked extensively on the Tax Reform Act of 1986. In 1987, Shaviro began his teaching career at the University of Chicago Law School, and he moved to New York University in 1995. Shaviro’s scholarly work examines tax policy, budget policy, and entitlements issues. His previous books include Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government’s March toward Bankruptcy (2006), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), and Do Deficits Matter? (1997).
