John Shoven
John B. Shoven (born May 24, 1947) is an American economist at Stanford University. He has held several senior roles there, including the Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Shoven works on public and corporate finance and has written about social security, taxes, pensions, mutual funds, and general equilibrium.
He has been at Stanford since 1973, led the economics department from 1986 to 1989, directed SIEPR from 1989 to 1993 and again from 1999 to 2015, and served as dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences from 1993 to 1998. He also consulted for the U.S. Treasury from 1975 to 1988. Shoven has published more than 100 articles and 18 books, including The Real Deal: The History and Future of Social Security and Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform. He has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard, the London School of Economics, Kyoto University, and Monash University. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He earned a BA in physics from the University of California, San Diego, and a PhD in economics from Yale University.
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