Kenneth Frederick Scheve Jr. is an American political economist.
Scheve earned a degree in economics at theUniversity of Notre Dame in 1990, then worked in the finance sector.[1] He completed a doctorate in political science atHarvard University in 2000,[2][1] where his doctoral thesis,Casting Votes in the Global Economy: Public Opinion and Voting Behavior in Open Economies, was advised byJames E. Alt,Torben Iversen, andGary King.[3] Scheve accepted an assistant professorship in political science at Yale University from 2001 to 2004, when he was named associate professor of public policy at theUniversity of Michigan.[1] Scheve returned to Yale as full professor of political science in 2006,[1] then left to teach at Stanford University in 2012.[2][1] He later rejoined the Yale faculty as Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs.[4] In 2020, Scheve was elected a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5] On May 14, 2025, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame.[6]
Scheve, Kenneth;Stasavage, David (2016).Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. Princeton University Press.ISBN9780691165455.[7]
Chorvat, Elizabeth; Chorvat, Terrence (March 2018). "The Dynamic Stability of Progressive Taxation".National Tax Journal.71 (1):183–190.doi:10.17310/ntj.2018.1.06.S2CID158661866.
Brownlee, W. Elliot (2017). "Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe".American Nineteenth Century History.18 (2):198–200.doi:10.1080/14664658.2017.1340399.S2CID149245797.
Hacker, Jacob S. (Winter 2016). "Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe. By Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xvi + 265 pp. Notes, references, figures, tables, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16545-5".Business History Review.90 (4):803–805.doi:10.1017/S0007680517000204.S2CID157897980.
Leipold, Alexander (14 November 2017). "Book Review: Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage, Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe".Political Studies Review.16 (1): NP59.doi:10.1177/1478929917724361.S2CID220124458.
Tsokhas, Kosmas (July 2019). "Scheve, Kenneth and Stasavage, David, Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 266 + XV pp. ISBN: 978 0 691 16545 5. Hardback US$29.95".Australian Economic History Review.59 (2):230–234.doi:10.1111/aehr.12149.
Zakariyya, Nabeeh (December 2018). "Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe, by Scheve, Kenneth and Stasavage, Daniel ( Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2016), pp. 259".Economic Record.94 (307):500–501.doi:10.1111/1475-4932.12447.S2CID158068992.
