John B. Shoven (born May 24, 1947) is the former Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at

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, the Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow at the

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and a research associate of the

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. He specializes in public finance and

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and has published on

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, corporate and personal taxation,

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s and applied general equilibrium economics. Shoven was born in 1947. Shoven has been at Stanford since 1973, serving as chairman of the economics department from 1986 to 1989, director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) ormerly Center for Economic Policy Researchfrom 1989 to 1993 and 1999 to 2015, and dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1993 to 1998. Shoven served as a consultant for the U.S. Treasury Department from 1975 to 1988. The author of more than one hundred professional articles and eighteen books, notably ''The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security'' and ''Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform'', he has been a visiting professor at

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, the

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, and

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. In 1995 he was elected a fellow of the

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. Shoven is a

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alumnus earning a B.A. in physics from

and a Ph.D. in economics from

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. At Stanford, Shoven served as the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1993 to 1998.

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External links

Biography at SIEPR
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