Prof. Neil H. Buchanan is an economist (A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard) and a legal scholar (J.D. from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. from Monash University).  He recently retired from the University of Florida's Graduate Tax Program and is now that university's James J. Freeland Eminent Chair in Taxation and Professor of Law emeritus. He has taught economics at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and elsewhere; and he has taught law at the University of Toronto, Osgoode Hall Law School (York University), the University of Florida, The George Washington University, New York University, and Rutgers University. He is an internationally recognized scholar who speaks frequently at universities around the world and has published widely in both academic journals and major newspapers and magazines. His core areas of research are tax policy, intergenerational justice, retirement security, critical perspectives on economics as applied to law, and the future of democracy in the United States and the world.