Professor Steven M. Sheffrin is professor of economics and executive director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. Prior to joining Tulane in 2010, he was a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, and served as department chairman of economics and dean of social sciences. Sheffrin has been a visiting professor at Oxford University, London School of Economics, Princeton University, and Nanyang Technological University, and has served as a financial economist with the Office of Tax Analysis of the United States Department of the Treasury. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Steven is the author of over ten ebooks and monographs and over a hundred articles in the fields of public finance, macroeconomics, and international economics. His most recent books include Rational Expectations (2nd edition) and Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13 (with Arthur O’Sullivan and Terri Sexton).

Steven has taught public finance and macroeconomics at all levels, from general introduction to principles classes (enrollments of 400) to graduate classes for doctoral students. He is the recipient of the Thomas Mayer Distinguished Teaching Award in economics.

Dr. Sheffrin lives with his wife Anjali (also an economist) in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has 2 daughters who have studied economics. In addition to a passion for travel and current affairs, he plays a tough game of tennis.