Laurence Kotlikoff

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name = Laurence J. Kotlikoff
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birth_date = birth date and age|1951|01|30
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occupation = Economist, Professor, Author
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website = [http://people.bu.edu/kotlikoff/ Boston University Website]

Laurence Jacob "Larry" Kotlikoff (b. January 30, 1951) is a professor of economics at Boston University, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and former senior economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He has published extensively in the field of public finance and tax reform, and is a leading scholar on the generational accounting of social security. He has written that the economic future is bleak for the United States without tax reform, health care reform, and Social Security reform. [ [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/202/ The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future] ] Kotlikoff is a supporter of the FairTax proposal, contributing to research of plan's effects and the required rate for revenue neutrality.cite web| url=http://people.bu.edu/kotlikoff/WSJ%20Op%20Ed%203-7-05.pdf| last=Kotlikoff| first=Laurence| coauthors=|title=The Case for the 'FairTax'| work=| publisher=The Wall Street Journal| date=2005-03-07| accessdate=2006-07-23] He was an economic adviser to formerly-Democratic candidate Mike Gravel during the 2008 Democratic Primary. [ [http://www.radiosandysprings.com/philhinson.php Phil Hinsons FairTax Show] , "September, 16, 2007", Guest Dr. Lawrence Kotlikoff]

Publications

* Laurence J. Kotlikoff, 1987, “social security," "The ", v. 4, pp. 413-18. Stockton Press
* Laurence J. Kotlikoff, 1992, "Generational Accounting", The Free Press

* Laurence J. Kotlikoff, 2006, " [http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/06/07/Kotlikoff.pdf Is the United States Bankrupt?] ," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Review", July/August, 88(4), pp. 235-49.
* Laurence J. Kotlikoff, October 22, 2006. " [http://people.bu.edu/kotlikoff/Drifting%20To%20Future%20Bankruptcy%20October%2022,%202006.pdf Drifting to Future Bankruptcy] ." "The Philadelphia Inquirer"
* Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, 2004. "The Coming Generational Storm", MIT Press. Book preview. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=GRSpr8TOWegC&pg=PA4&dq=distribution+economics&sig=UJ9N12EznI6mIQ1V_I9Ofrm0RaE#PPP1,M1. "The Coming Generational Storm"] book preview]

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External links

* [http://people.bu.edu/kotlikoff/Bio.pdf Bio]
* [http://people.bu.edu/kotlikoff/ Publications]
* [http://people.bu.edu/kotlikoff/LK%20VITA%20October%2023,%202006.pdf Vita]