Alvin Rabushka (born May 15, 1940) is an American political scientist. He is a David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and member of the Mont Pelerin Society. He is best known for his work on taxation and transition economies. Together with Robert Hall, he wrote a detailed flat tax plan known as the Hall–Rabushka flat tax.
Publications
- Taxation in Colonial America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN 9781400828708
- Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Democratic Instability ISBN 9780205617616
- From Predation to Prosperity: How to Move from Socialism to Markets (October 20, 2008)
- Fixing Russia's Banks: A Proposal for Growth. Hoover Institution Press, 2013. ISBN 9780817995768
- The Flat Tax ISBN 9780817993115
References
- Rabushka's home page at Stanford
- Rabushka's bio at Washington University at Saint Louis
- Rabushka's bio at the Hoover Institution
External links
- an interview with Alvin Rabushka (Sast Report)
- The Flat Tax, by Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka (full text from the Hoover Institution)
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Roberts, Russ (April 23, 2007). "Rabushka on the Flat Tax". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.
- "Alvin Rabushka". JSTOR.