Henry J. Aaron is currently a Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. From 1990 through 1996, he was the director of the Economic Studies Program. In 1996, he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. From 1967 to 1989, he taught economics at the University of Maryland. He also served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation in 1977 and 1978 at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and in 1979, chaired the Advisory Council on Social Security. He has been vice-president and member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association and president of the Association of Public Policy and Management.
Leonard E. Burman is director of the Tax Policy Center, senior fellow at the Urban Institute, and visiting professor at Georgetown University. Dr. Burman served as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis from 1998 to 2000, and as senior analyst at the Congressional Budget Office from 1988 to 1997. He is the author of The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy: A Guide for the Perplexed, and numerous articles, studies, and reports. He is also a commentator for Marketplace. His recent research has examined the individual alternative minimum tax, the changing role of taxation in social policy, and tax incentives for savings, retirement, and health insurance.
C. Eugene Steuerle is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and codirector of the Urban–Brookings Tax Policy Center. He is also the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of eleven books and close to 1,000 reports, articles, columns, testimonies, and reports. His latest book is Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy. Among many other positions, he has served as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis (1987–1989), president of the National Tax Association (2001–2002), chair of the 1999 Technical Panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions, and president of the National Economists Club Educational Foundation. Between 1984 and 1986, he served as Economic Coordinator and original organizer of the Treasury’s tax reform effort, for which one top Treasury wrote that 1986 tax reform “would not have moved forward without your early leadership.”
