Areas of expertise
Tax and budget policy • Public economics
Biography
Andrew Fieldhouse was at the Economic Policy Institute from 2010 to 2013, where he worked on fiscal policy and progressive budget reform. Andrew also worked during that time as a federal budget policy analyst for The Century Foundation. He previously worked as an assistant budget analyst and research assistant with the House Budget Committee. His areas of research and interest include federal tax and budget policy, political economy, public investment, stabilization policy, and macroeconomics. Andrew has provided frequent commentary on budget policy debates and the impact of fiscal policy on the economic recovery. He has appeared as a guest on CNN, PBS Nightly Business Report, C-SPAN, CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business News, and the BBC, as well as NPR affiliates.
Education
B.A., Economics and Political Science, Swarthmore College
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Rigorous Research is Needed to Eventually Inform Better Economic Policy, Regardless of Political Realities
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How much can tax policy curb income inequality growth? Maybe a lot
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Rising Income Inequality and the Role of Shifting Market-Income Distribution, Tax Burdens, and Tax Rates
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Economic expansion versus economic recovery
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Economic policy is largely being driven by obstructionism, not economic advisers
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Broadening the tax base and raising top rates are complements, not substitutes: 1986-style tax reform is a flawed template
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Winning the intellectual debate on austerity while losing the policy debate
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Building a Tax Code for Today
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Dangerous targets: Why setting a specific deficit reduction target would worsen the economic and fiscal situation
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Reinhart and Rogoff couldn’t justify austerity before it was debunked
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Taxes are rising – but let’s remember which ones
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Tax Day 2013: For the vast major, it’s all about the expired payroll tax cut
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How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? Getting the Fight Right
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The Obama budget’s misguidedly lower revenue target
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How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? (Hint, Much Higher)
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No, New Tax Cuts Will Not Pay for Themselves
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A review of the economic research on the effects of raising ordinary income tax rates: Higher revenue, unchanged growth, and uncertain but potentially large reductions in the growth of inequality
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Senate Democratic budget overly focused on deficit reduction
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Aggressively targeting a full recovery is the least risky thing you can do: Back to Work Budget edition
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House Democratic budget would also boost employment
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The ‘Back to Work’ budget: Analysis of the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget for fiscal year 2014
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Ryan proposes another path to fewer jobs and slower growth
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Forget Spending Cuts, the U.S. Economy Really Needs a $2 Trillion Stimulus
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Sequestration was never about fiscal responsibility
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GOP sequester position derails recovery (again)
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Policymakers shouldn’t assume that a full recovery is four years away (and always will be)
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From free-fall to stagnation: Five years after the start of the Great Recession, extraordinary policy measures are still needed, but are not forthcoming
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The Progressive Caucus’s sensible approach to sequestration: Prioritizing jobs and growth
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When and what kind of deficit reduction matters most: The danger of aggressive 10-year deficit targets in the current budget debate
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The importance of revenue revisited: Minimizing the drag of austerity