{"id":52767,"date":"2024-12-25T13:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T19:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=52767"},"modified":"2025-02-26T17:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T23:39:37","slug":"final-goodbye-to-peter-mieszkowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=52767","title":{"rendered":"Final Goodbye to P. Mieszkowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mieszko_304.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mieszko_304.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Mieszko_304-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Our deepest sympathy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">to the family of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Peter Mieszkowski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">who passed away on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> December 25, 2024<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-very-light-gray-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">He will be missed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">by his family and friends<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">in Houston and in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#fafafa\">&#8216;<em>Peter Mieszkowski, a professor emeritus of economics at Rice University, was a distinguished scholar whose pioneering contributions shaped the field of public economics, Mieszkowski leaves behind a legacy of academic brilliance and a profound impact on economic thought.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#fafafa\"><em>Peter\u2019s many contributions are renowned for the broad range of topics he investigated. His research included analyses of both national and state corporate income taxes, state sales taxes, models of regional taxation including taxes on land rents, the effects of unions on the distribution of income, the extent of racial discrimination in housing, pension plans, the determinants of health, the effects of land use regulation, peer group effects on education, and urban decentralization.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#fafafa\"><em>Peter\u2019s career also included work on more applied topics. In an early paper with Nobel laureate James Tobin and tax policy icon Joseph Pechman, he examined the feasibility of implementing a negative income tax \u2014 a precursor to today\u2019s popular Earned Income Tax Credit. He also examined the desirability and feasibility of implementing a consumption tax, the effects of intergovernmental grants, and the economic impacts of taxes on energy. Finally, <strong>he worked on some tax reform projects in transition economies, including an analysis of reform options in his native Poland as it emerged from the shadow of Soviet rule.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#fafafa\"><em>Professor Mieszkowski was an internationally recognized scholar of public economics who published many path-breaking contributions that helped shape the field.<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#d0d0d1\"><strong>READ FULL Rice University article<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.rice.edu\/news\/2025\/rice-remembers-peter-mieszkowski-path-breaking-professor-emeritus-economics\"><strong>news.rice.edu\/news\/2025\/rice-remembers-peter-mieszkowski-path-breaking-professor-emeritus-economics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our deepest sympathy to the family of Peter Mieszkowski who passed away on December 25, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,84,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-2","category-final-goodbye","category-from-our-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52767"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53024,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52767\/revisions\/53024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}