Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI in Washington, D.C. where he directs the AEI Federalism Project and the AEI Liability Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve cofounded and from 1989 to February 2000 directed the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), a public interest law firm. CIR served as counsel in many precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison (2000) and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia (1995). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights. He is the editor, with Fred L. Smith, of Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Praeger, 1992) and the author of The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law (AEI, 1996) and most recently, of Real Federalism: Why It Matters, How It Could Happen (AEI, 1999).

Kevin A. Hassett is director of economic policy studies and resident scholar at AEI. Before joining AEI, Mr. Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He has also served as a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury during both the former Bush and Clinton administrations. Mr. Hassett is a member of the Joint Committee on Taxation’s Dynamic Scoring Advisory Panel. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of six books on economics and economic policy. He has published scholarly articles in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and many other professional journals. His popular writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, and numerous other outlets.

Peter Merrill is director of the National Economic Consulting Group in the Washington National Tax Services office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and is a principal in the firm. Before joining the firm in 1989, he was chief economist of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress. Mr. Merrill also has lectured at Harvard College. The National Economic Consulting Group provides revenue and budget estimates of legislative and regulatory proposals, financial and economic impact analyses, health policy economics, statistical analyses, and general economic consulting services. Mr. Merrill has significant experience in international taxation and tax policy. He has advised the governments of Poland, the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, Bulgaria, and Russia on the reform and enactment of income and value-added taxes. Other areas of expertise include financial services, electronic commerce, and energy and environmental tax policy. He is a member of the American Economics Association, the National Tax Association, and the International Fiscal Association. Mr. Merrill is coauthor of three books and has written numerous articles. He frequently speaks on tax policy matters and has been invited to testify before the tax-writing committees of the U.S. Congress, the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, and the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce.

Daniel Shaviro is professor of law at New York University Law School. His research has mainly emphasized income tax policy, government transfers, budgetary measures, social insurance, and entitlements reform. Books that he has written include Do Deficits Matter? (1997); When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000); Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000); and Who Should Pay for Medicare? (forthcoming), all published by the University of Chicago Press.