About the College
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About the Dean
Dean Steven Sheffrin.
Steven M. Sheffrin is dean of the Division of Social Sciences and professor of economics at UC Davis. He joined the UC Davis faculty in 1976. Sheffrin has been a visiting professor at Nuffield College (Oxford), the London School of Economics, and Princeton University. He has also served as a financial economist with the Office of Tax Analysis and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Tax Association. Sheffrin also directs the Center for State and Local Taxation.
Sheffrin holds a B.A. from the College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University, and a Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sheffrin is the author of nine books and monographs and over one hundred articles in the fields of macroeconomics, public finance, and international economics. His most important books include Rational Expectations (second edition), Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13, both from Cambridge University Press, and Economics: Principles and Tools (fourth edition) from Prentice-Hall.
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