Edgar L. Feige

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Edgar L. Feige
Born (1937-09-19) 19 September 1937 (age 83)
Berlin, Germany
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Columbia University
Doctoral
advisor		Milton Friedman
Doctoral
students		Kenneth Singleton

Edgar L. Feige (born 19 September 1937)[1] is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A graduate of Columbia University (BA. 1958) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D, 1963) he has taught at Yale University ; The University of Essex; Erasmus University and held the Cleveringa Chair ,[2] at the University of Leiden in 1981-82. He has published widely on such topics as underground and shadow economies;[3] tax evasion; transition economics; financial transaction taxes[4] the Automated Payment Transaction tax (APT tax); and monetary theory and policy.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] He has consulted with various US and international government agencies.[6][12]

Selected publications[]

  • The Demand for Liquid Assets, Prentice Hall, 1963;
  • The Underground Economies: Tax Evasion and Information Distortion, Cambridge University Press, 1989
  • Underground Economies in Transition: Unrecorded Activity, Tax Evasion, Corruption and Organized Crime, Ashgate, 1999.
  • Taxation for the 21st century: the automated payment transaction (APT) tax.
  • Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the Shadow Economy?

References[]

  1. ^ Edgar L. Feige at the Leiden University "faculty since 1575" site.
  2. ^ "Cleveringa chair".
  3. ^ "The Underground Recovery". The New Yorker Retrieved February 18, 2016
  4. ^ "Prof's HighBeam Archived 2016-05-04 at the Wayback Machine Proposal Highlights Unfairness of the Tax Code" Wisconsin State Journal Retrieved February 23, 2016
  5. ^ "Edgar L Feige". IDEAS. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "Edgar Feige". Academia.edu. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  7. ^ "An Interview with Edgar Feige" The GailFosler Group Retrieved February 18, 2016
  8. ^ "Dreaming Out Loud-One Tiny Little Tax". New York Times Retrieved February 18, 2016
  9. ^ "Edgar L. Feige" WorldCat Retrieved February 18, 2016
  10. ^ "Edgar L. Feige" JSTOR Retrieved February 18, 2016
  11. ^ "Edgar L. Feige" Scholar Retrieved February 18, 2016
  12. ^ "Edgar L. Feige | the GailFosler Group".


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