Alvin Rabushka

Alvin Rabushka ( born May 15, 1940 in St. Louis) is an American economist and political scientist, currently doing research at the Hoover Institution. He is next to Robert E. Hall as the inventor of the flat tax.

Rabushka first studied East Asian Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1962 he made ​​there his bachelor's and then went to Hong Kong to learn the Chinese language. In 1966 he received his master's degree at Washington University in 1968 and his Ph.D. in political science. From 1968 to 1976 he taught at the University of Rochester, since 1976 he has been researching at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Rabushka works on taxation in the United States and the economic development of the Pacific Rim countries, Israel and countries of Central and Eastern Europe, especially Russia.

Works

• Ethnic Politics in Malaysia. Dissertation [about 1968]
• Politics in Plural Societies. Merrill, Columbus, Ohio, 1972; 2nd edition, Pearson / Longman, New York 2008, ISBN 9780205617616
• A Theory of Racial Harmony. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia 1974
• Hong Kong: A Study in Economic Freedom. University of Chicago, Chicago, 1979, ISBN 0918584027
• Pauline Ryan: The Tax Revolt. Hoover Institution, Stanford, California 1982, ISBN 0817977015
• With Robert E. Hall: The Flat Tax. Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, 1985, ISBN 0817982221, 2nd edition, 1995, ISBN 0-8179-9312-6 ( digitized )
• From Adam Smith to the Wealth of America. Transaction Books, New Brunswick, 1985, ISBN 0887380298
• New China. Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, San Francisco, 1987, ISBN 0936488158 Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1987, ISBN 0813305195
• With Michael S. Bernstam: Fixing Russia 's Banks: A Proposal for Growth. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, California 1998, ISBN 0817995722
• Taxation in Colonial America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008, ISBN 9780691133454