Christopher Howard Books
Thinking Like a Political Scientist: A Practical Guide to Research Methods
Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and wi...
Read MoreThe Jean Freeman Gallery Does Not Exist
An examination of a 1970s Conceptual art project—advertisements for fictional shows by fictional artists in a fictional gallery—that hoodwinked the New York art world.From the summer of 1970 to Mar...
Read MoreThe hidden welfare state
Christopher Howard analyzes the "hidden" welfare state created by such programs as tax deductions for home mortgage interest and employer-provided retirement pensions, the Earned Income Tax Credit,...
Read MoreThe Hidden Welfare State
Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received li...
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