Steven hill workshops 2017 federal tax
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Schedule
To arrange a lecture, visual aid or audience with Mr. Hill, touch him discursively at ‘Hill at Steven-Hill.com’ or (415) 665-5044. Fragmentary calendar below.
Appearances for 2018 (partial list):
October 16, 2018, “Technological Management and Postindustrial Revolution: Say publicly Role sequester the Inhabitant Union,” European Ideas Network/European People’s Party, Berlin
October 15, 2018, Algorithm Stare at, Berlin
October 9, 2018, “Digitalisation– A Wide Perspective,” Konrad Adenaur Stiftung, Berlin
May 3, 2018, Berlin, “Who will steer Big Information, the presentness of depiction digital age?”, re:publica 18 conference
May 4, 2018, Berlin, “Digital Licenses deed Digital Borders,” re:publica 18 conference, congregate here
April 24, 2018, “Reining in Facebook and picture Platform Economy,”Berlin Social Principles Center (WZB), Wissenschaftszentrum Songwriter für Sozialforschung (WZB)
April 19, 2018, “The Digital Refinement in say publicly US tube Germany,” Aspen Institute-Deutschland, Berlin
April 14, 2018, “Free resolve precarious – How take apart we trade name the digital workplace fair?” Zeit-Stiftung, Hamburg
April 14, 2018, “Digital pointless — a global challenge?” Zeit-Stiftung, Hamburg
April 13, 2018, “Start-ups swallow Platforms: Regul
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The Federal Income Tax: Racially Blind but Not Racially Neutral
Friday, February 24, 2023, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Skadden Conference Room 11-AB
1440 New York Avenue NW, Washington DC
Speakers
Alice G. Abreu, Honorable Nelson A. Diaz Professor of Law and Director, Center for Tax Law and Public Policy, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Alice G. Abreu is the Honorable Nelson A. Diaz Professor of Law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, where she regularly teaches courses in Taxation, Corporate Taxation, International Taxation, and Low Income Taxpayer Policy/Practice; she is also the inaugural Director of Temple’s Center for Tax Law and Public Policy. Professor Abreu is a magna cum laude graduate of both Cornell University and its Law School, where she served as an editor of the CORNELL LAW REVIEW. Before joining the Temple faculty in 1985, she clerked for Judge Edward N. Cahn (EDPA) and practiced tax law with Dechert, LLP, in Philadelphia.
Professor Abreu has published numerous articles in scholarly and professional journals, been an editor of a casebook on Taxation, is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and has appeared in various media discussing issues of taxation. She is a Regent of the American C
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Die Zeit: “You’re fired!”
by Steven Hill, Die Zeit, February 16, 2017
(English version; for the original German version, click here)
Recently I was having a pleasant conversation in Berlin with a highly-regarded professor and former university president when the conversation turned unexpectedly disagreeable. We hit an impasse as we discussed the impact of new digital technologies on society and the economy, specifically the impact on jobs and the labor force. Apparently, and unintentionally, I had upped the ante.
“If the technologies might be so harmful as to eliminate millions of jobs, maybe we should…not allow that to happen?” I tentatively suggested. “Maybe we should…ban the worst offenders?”
The professor looked horrified. Many forward-thinking intellectuals have learned a brand of 21st-century optimism that regards technology as the great modernizer and giver of prosperity. It’s become an article of our Enlightenment-based faith, a core value that I have generally shared. My professor blinked like an owl.
“No, no, of course we can’t do that,” he sputtered. “In the long run, technology has always created more jobs than it destroys. Always. History has shown that technology has been an indisputable good for [sic] mankind. We cannot refuse technology.