Photo credits: Stone Lecture audience by Charles Xu, Harvard College and The Harvard Crimson. Book signing by Peter Q. Blair, Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
By Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman W.W. Norton & Company (Oct 15, 2019)
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Design your own tax reform in this interactive website. Explore how adjusting various taxes can make the tax system more or less progressive. Or design a wealth tax and explore its effects on long-run inequality. Researchers will find all data, code, slides, FAQs, and technical appendices to the book.
In 2018, for the first time in more than one hundred years, billionaires paid a lower tax rate than ordinary workers, crowning the dismantling of America’s system of progressive taxation. In this eye-opening book, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman show that there is no iron law of economics that led us there, just many whose self-interest or misunderstanding of economics make them claim the opposite. Their radical proposal to reinvent taxation for a globalized world will become an unavoidable starting point to any intelligent conversation.
— Esther Duflo, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty.
America is tired with inequality and oligarchy. Armed with eye-popping new data, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman reveal how tax injustice is fueling the oligarchic drift. But above all, they propose bold solutions to help America reconnect with its tradition of tax justice, from the taxation of extreme wealth and giant corporations to the funding of health care for all. This is a brilliantly argued book that is an essential contribution to the global economic and political debate of the twenty-first century.
— Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
[T]he most important book on government policy that I’ve read in a long time.
Conference organized by Olivier Blanchard (MIT) and Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School), Peterson Institute for International Economics (Oct 17-18, 2019).
Day 1 Session 1: The Landscape Session 2: Ethical and Philosophical Dimensions Session 3: Political Dimensions Session 4: The Distribution of Human Capital Session 5: Trade, Outsourcing, and Foreign Investment Session 6: The (Re)distribution of Financial Capital
Day 2 Session 1: Rate and Direction of Technological Change Session 2: Labor Market Policies, Institutions, and Norms Session 3: Labor Market Tools Session 4: Social Safety Nets Session 5: Progressive Taxation Concluding Remarks
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THE JAMES M. AND CATHLEEN D. STONE LECTURE IN ECONOMIC INEQUALITY 2019
