📢 Join our upcoming #LunchSeminar with Barbara Stage (WHU), presenting 'The Value of a Loss: The Impact of Restricting Tax Loss Transfers'.

🗓️ May 3rd | 12 pm - 1 pm (CET)

📍 Paris School of Economics & online

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Agree with the WSJ editorial board that a coordinated minimum tax on the super-rich may well happen

As for the rest…. 💕

Brasil, país que tiene la presidencia del G20, va a liderar una agenda para que los superricos paguen un impuesto y así luchar contra la pobreza en el mundo. Hablamos con Gabriel Zucman, economista de Icrict, quien está detrás de la iniciativa. #NoticiasCaracol 👇🏼

💥Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: 'why we need a global tax on billionaires'

Momentum for a coordinated minimum tax on the super-rich is accelerating – history in the making!

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The rise of extreme wealth in the United States in one simple chart

(Source: gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2021J…, updated to 2023)

The wealth of the 400 richest Americans was equivalent to 2% of US GDP in 1982 (first year of the Forbes ranking) and now reaches 17% of GDP

In honor of my last day of teaching 'Economic Inequality and Growth' at UC Berkeley, some more graphs.

I'll start with the famous elephant curve popularized by Branko Milanovic. Between 1980-2020, most global growth was captured by either the global bottom 50% or the top 1%.

Esther Duflo: Rich world owes $500bn in ‘moral debt’ to poor countries ft.com/content/2fa578…

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📢 Join our upcoming #LunchSeminar with Georg Wamser (Universität Tübingen), presenting 'Effective Corporate Income Taxation and Corruption'.

🗓️ April 26th | 12 pm - 1 pm (CET)
📍 Paris School of Economics & online

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And one day it might even become hard for billionaires to pay no tax😢