Laurence Kotlikoff

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Laurence Jacob Kotlikoff (born January 30, 1951) is an American economist who has served as a professor of economics at Boston University since 1984. A specialist in macroeconomics and public finance, he has contributed to a range of fields, including climate change and carbon taxation, the global macroeconomic transition and the future of economic power, inequality, fiscal progressivity, economic guides to personal financial behavior, banking reform, marginal taxation and labor supply, healthcare reform, and social security. He is the author of over 20 books, and his scholarly articles have been published in a range of journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. In 2014, The Economist ranked Kotlikoff as the 19th most influential economist in the world. Born in 1951, Kotlikoff received a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, and a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1977. After...

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