About the Author

David G. Tuerck is professor of economics at Suffolk University in Boston and president of the Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research. He has held a variety of academic, consulting, and research positions. His fields of study are public finance and macroeconomics. He has published several books and articles, made dozens of television and radio appearances, published numerous opinion editorials and testified, on three occasions, before the U.S. Congress, as well before several state legislatures.