Tax economists should engage with existing policy debates rather than trying to infer public preferences from existing policy, according to Charlie Brendon, Max Weber Fellow at the EUI

Are the choices made by women in pursuit of fashion any freer than those made by women who cover for religious purposes? According to Professor Leora Auslander of the University of Chicago, the underlying motives may not be as transparent as they first appear

“Too often social science studies pensions. But a pension is only one of a multiplicity of resources older people have.” says Professor Rose Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and part-time professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies