Books written by Jon Bakija

  • Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate Over Taxes

    Authors' calculations based on data in Bryant and Gober (2013, tables 5 and 6). There were 3.5 million contributors to traditional IRAs and 5.8 million contributors to Roth IRAs in 2010. 62. Some of those IRA contributors might have ...

  • Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes

    Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research and MIT Press. Feld, Alan. 1995. “Living with the Flat Tax.” National Tax Journal 48, no. 4 (December): 603–618. Feldstein, Martin. 1994. “Tax Policy and International Capital Flows.

  • How Big Should Our Government Be?

    ... 151n7, 153n20, 162n44 Knuse, Agneta, 153n32 Kreiner, Claus Thustrup, 107 Krugman, Paul, 161n36 K-12 education, 6, ... 138, 149n80 Moffitt, Robert, 119 Morgan, J. P., 9 Morrill Act (1853), 7 mothers, human capital of, 52–53 Murphy, ...

  • Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate Over Taxes

    The fourth edition of a popular guide to the key issues in tax reform, discussing the current system and alternative proposals clearly and without a political agenda.As Albert Einstein may...

  • Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate Over Taxes

    Taxing Ourselves bridges the gap between the two by presenting in clear , nontechnical language the key issues in tax reform : who should pay taxes , how taxes affect the economy , and whether to reform or replace the current tax system ...

  • How Big Should Our Government Be?

    -- Thinking sensibly about the size of government "If you would like a low-key, reasonably argued, nonideological discussion of the economic role of the government in the United States, one based on facts and on research using the facts, ...