Books By David J. Hebert, Diana W. Thomas - Author

David Hebert is an Assistant Professor of Economics and the department chair at Aquinas College. He holds a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from Hillsdale College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. During graduate school, he was an F.A. Hayek Fellow with the Mercatus Center and a Fellow with the Department of Health Administration and Policy and also worked with the Joint Economic Committee in the U.S. Congress. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, MI and Troy University in Troy, AL, and was also a Fellow with the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, where he authored a comprehensive report on Federal budget process reform.

His area of expertise lies in public choice and public finance. Specifically, his research aims to address the question of why democracies around the world and throughout history systematically produce tax codes that are long, complicated, and contain numerous loopholes despite universal po