Louis Kaplow

Louis Kaplow is Finn M.W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in economics and a J.D. from Harvard University. He has published widely in the fields of taxation and public economics, antitrust, law and economics, and welfare economics and moral philosophy. He serves on editorial boards of numerous journals and has been an economic and legal consultant to government entities and private parties. He has received lifetime achievement awards for scholarship from the National Tax Association and from the American Law and Economics Association.

Notable publications include: (1) Antitrust: Rethinking Merger Analysis (MIT Press 2024), Competition Policy and Price Fixing (Princeton University Press 2013), as well as articles on antitrust and a text in the field; (2) Taxation and Public Economics: Optimal Income Taxation (Journal of Economic Literature 2024), The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics (Princeton University Press 2008), and a series of articles presenting a new framework for the analysis of taxation and related subjects in public economics; (3) Law and Economics: articles on a broad range of subjects, many on legal rules and the legal system; (4) Welfare Economics: Fairness versus Welfare (Harvard University Press 2002) (with Steven Shavell), an analytical argument and synthesis at the intersection of economics, moral philosophy, and law.