This book by Alan Viard and Robert Carroll proposes to completely replace the income tax system with a progressive consumption tax.

In an upcoming piece, AEI's Kevin Hassett highlights a new unique index of policy uncertainty which was developed in a path-breaking paper by Stanford economists Scott R. Baker and Nicholas Bloom along with AEI Visiting Scholar and University of Chicago economist Steve Davis. Among...

In this event, participants will review the Bhagat-Obreja paper and consider the role of uncertainty in major business decisions.

What's on the horizon for taxes? AEI's Aparna Mathur weighs in with the House Small Business Committee.

While the risk of doing business with Iran has increased since the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the imposition of UN Security Council-mandated sanctions, many international corporations, banking institutions, and state-run export agencies have continued investing in the Islamic Republic. Western governments have denounced Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and sponsorship of...

The general economic "health" of the U.S. manufacturing sector has re-emerged in a Presidential election year. In his 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama announced to Americans "that we have a huge opportunity, at this moment to bring manufacturing back," promising manufacturers special tax reductions and other federal...