Daniel Shaviro

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Today I self-published my memoir, Now Is Now and Then Is Then, on Kindle Direct Publishing. Kindle price $4.99, but not available for perhaps another 72 hours. I’ll add a print-on-demand paperback option next week; couldn’t do so today due to formatting issues.

 Over the last few months, I’ve written a fairly interesting and unique literary work (if I do say so myself). It’s a memoir, covering the period from my very first memory through age 29, when I both met my wife and got my first academic teaching job. Tentative title: “Portrait of an Academic as a…

About 18 months ago (I remember the time because I was visiting at U Va Law School), I briefly got interested in how Chat GPT makes things up. E.g., I asked it what my novel Getting It is about. It confabulated in response that it’s about the need for broad-based tax reform, etcetera. (Which, needless…

Today the Supreme Court released its decision in Moore v. United States, upholding the 2017 tax act’s mandatory repatriation tax (MRT) on foreign source income (FSI) of American-controlled foreign corporations. The MRT was eminently sensible in principle, although far from perfectly designed in practice, in that the applicable FSI had previously been subject to…

 I just posted this piece on a libertarian-affiliated U of Chicago website. Based on a 2013 article that I wrote concerning Henry Simons. It discusses the question of why a Friedrich Hayek-affiliated “classical liberal” would have supported both vigorous anti-monopoly enforcement and a high-rate progressive income tax – positions that are anathema to the likes…

 Presented without comment, part of a spam email that I got today, pertaining to a (co-authored) casebook for introductory federal income tax classes:

Dear Daniel,
I trust this email finds you in good health and high spirits.
We are delighted to reach out to you regarding your book, “Federal Income Taxation” which was submitted to

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It occurred to me recently that my two favorite pop songwriters of the last 25 years – Fiona Apple and Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields) – on the surface seemingly couldn’t be more different. So why should they both be personal favorites of mine? True, both are astonishingly gifted, but there are other talented songwriters…

In a prior post, I had mentioned that the 2024 NYU Tax Policy Colloquium might need to shift to a new time, due to changes in the law school’s scheduling blocks to accommodate multiple objectives. It now turns out that there will be less change than I had been thinking might be necessary.We will still…