James R Hines Author & Editor

James R. Hines is L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law, Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics, and research director of the business school's Office of Tax Policy Research at the University of Michigan. In 2017 he received the National Tax Association's Daniel M. Holland Medal for lifetime achievement in the study of public finance. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, research director of the International Tax Policy Forum, former co-editor of the American Economic Association's Journal of Economic Perspectives, and former economist in the U.S. Department of Commerce.