W. Elliot Brownlee

U.S. Economic History

• The Comparative Fiscal History of the United States and Japan
  
• The Shoup Mission and the Reform of Public Finance in Japan, 1945-1952: A Transnational History
  
• The Financing of World War I
  
• Economic Policy during the Reagan Presidency
  

• The Shoup Mission to Japan: Two Political Economies Intersect
  in Isaac William Martin, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Monica Prasad, THE NEW FISCAL SOCIOLOGY: TAXATION IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 237-255.
  
• “Wilson’s Reform of Economic Structure: Progressive Liberalism and the Corporation”
  in John Milton Cooper, ed., RECONSIDERING WOODROW WILSON: PROGRRESSIVISM, INTERNATIONALISM, WAR, AND PEACE (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 57-89.
  
• "Taxation in the United States during World War I: Alternatives and Legacies"
  in Alexander Nützenadel and Christoph Strupp, eds., TAXATION, STATE, AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN GERMAN AND THE UNITED STATES FROM THE 18th TO THE 20th CENTURY (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007), 83-96.
  
• "The American Occupation of Japan, the Shoup Mission, and the Transfer of Tax Ideas, 1945-1952"
  in Florian Schui and Holger Nehring, eds., GLOBAL DEBATES ABOUT TAXATION (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), 158-181.
  
• “Antebellum Southern Political Economists and the Problem of Slavery”
  coauthored with Jay R. Carlander, AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY HISTORY, 7 (September 2006), 389-416.
  
• "Social Philosophy and Tax Regimes in the United States, 1763 to the present"
  in SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY, 23 (Summer 2006), 1-27, and in Ellen Frankel Paul et al., eds., TAXATION, ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, and DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006),1-27.
  
• "Economic Policy in the First Reagan Administration: The Conflict Between Tax Reform and Countercyclical Management"
  in Richard W. Kopcke et al., eds., THE MACROECONOMICS OF FISCAL POLICY (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 2006), 143-173.
  
• FEDERAL TAXATION IN AMERICA: A SHORT HISTORY, Second Edition
  (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2004). First edition, 1996.
  
• THE REAGAN PRESIDENCY: PRAGMATIC CONSERVATISM AND ITS LEGACIES
  co-edited with Hugh Davis Graham (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003).
  
• "Taxation"
  co-authored with C. Eugene Steuerle, in THE REAGAN PRESIDENCY: PRAGMATIC CONSERVATISM AND ITS LEGACIES (see above), 155-181.
  
• "Economic History and the Analysis of ‘Soaking-the-Rich’ in Twentieth-Century America"
  in TAX JUSTICE RECONSIDERED: THE MORAL AND ETHICAL BASES OF TAXATION, Joseph J. Thorndike and Dennis J. Ventry, eds. (Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute and Tax Analysts, 2002), 71-93.
  
• "The Public Sector"
  in Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, eds., THE CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Volume III: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 1013-1060.
  
• "Historical Perspectives on U.S. Tax Policy Toward the Rich"
  in Joel B. Slemrod, ed., DOES ATLAS SHRUG? THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF TAXING THE RICH (Cambridge and New York: Harvard University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2000), 29-73.
  
• FUNDING THE MODERN AMERICAN STATE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ERA OF EASY FINANCE, 1941-1995
  editor and principal contributor (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press and the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1996).
  

• University of California, Santa Barbara Medal, 2003
  
• Oliver Johnson Award for Distinguished Service to the University of California Academic Senate, system-wide, 1998
  
• Bicentennial Lecturer, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1989
  
• Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1987-88
  
• Special Commendation, The State of California Department of Parks and Recreation, 1987
  
• Fellow, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University, 1978-79
  

• Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University, 2009-2010
  
• Visiting Professor and Research Fellow, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, 2007
  
• Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University, 2004
  
• Visiting Professor, Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, 2002
  
• Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 1980-81
  

• "The Federal Tax System is Broken--Fix It, Don't Cut Out Its Heart"
  LOS ANGELES TIMES, November 30, 2004
  
• "The Tax-Cut Debate: How Much More Can the System Take?"
  NEWSDAY, May 11, 2003