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Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman

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Gabriel Zucman, Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and École normale supérieure, is Summer Research Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, Founding Director of the EU Tax Observatory, and a co-author (with Emmanuel Saez) of The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019).

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  1. America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel
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    America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel

    Feb 28, 2025 Gabriel Zucman proposes that countries targeted by US tariffs retaliate with taxes on Elon Musk and his peers.

  2. Taxing the Superrich Is More Possible – and More Necessary – Than Ever
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    Taxing the Superrich Is More Possible – and More Necessary – Than Ever

    Aug 6, 2024 Gabriel Zucman welcomes recent international progress toward taxing the wealth of billionaires.

  3. Escaping the Inequality-Data Dark Ages
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    Escaping the Inequality-Data Dark Ages

    Dec 23, 2019 Thomas Piketty, et al. lament governments' failure to collect the most basic statistics on the distribution of income and wealth.

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    Will the World Keep Buying US Treasuries?

    Paola Subacchi & Paul van den Noord foresee a gradual reduction in countries’ holdings of dollar-denominated debt, not a rapid sell-off.
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    Why China’s Marriage Crisis Matters

    Yi Fuxian examines the factors underlying a key cause of the country’s demographic crisis.
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    Israel Must Not Ignore the Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza

    Konstanty Gebert

    Recent demonstrations in Gaza have pushed not only for an end to the war, but also for an end to Hamas's rule, thus echoing Israel's own stated objectives. Yet the Israeli government, consumed by its own internal politics, has barely acknowledged this unprecedentedly positive development.

    underscores the unprecedented nature of recent demonstrations in the war-ravaged enclave.
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    Donald Trump Is a Globalist

    Harold James shows that the MAGA movement is actually an unalloyed version of the idea that its leader claims to reject.
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    Getting Abundance Right

    Sandeep Vaheesan

    America's history is replete with episodes in which vigorous government action proved essential to achieving shared prosperity. With a lethal mutation of neoliberalism now destroying US state capacity, understanding what came before has never been more important.

    urges the creation of public utilities to accelerate decarbonization and improve living standards.
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    Two Models for Agentic AI

    Daron Acemoglu sees a technological crossroads ahead – and argues that one path should not be taken.
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    Developing Countries Need a New Strategy

    Rabah Arezki touts industrial policies that welcome multinational corporations' participation, but on fairer terms.
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    How the World Can Keep Trump 2.0 in Check

    Anne-Marie Slaughter outlines five steps that foreign entities should take to counteract the US president’s radical agenda.
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    How Trumpism Ends

    Chris Patten urges current and former policymakers to speak out against the US president’s reckless policies.

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