We Need to Tax Billionaires

If the super-rich are left outside the tax system, the concentration of economic power eventually clashes with our democratic ideals. This is both a question of fairness and a question of democracy.

Society has become richer, but not more equitable. One proposed solution is the 2% ‘Zucman tax’: a minimum tax on the ultra-rich themselves, put forward by economist and global expert on the taxation of wealth, Gabriel Zucman. We Need to Tax Billionaires shows why now is the moment.*

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Speaker: Gabriel Zucman is Professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics and Ecole normale supérieure – PSL, Summer Research Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and founding Director of the International Tax Observatory. He is the author of 'The Hidden Wealth of Nations' and has had several papers published in leading journals. He is the founding director of the PSE Stone center on Global Wealth Dynamics. He received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 2023.

Chair: Camille Landais is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Director of STICERD.  In addition to his academic role, he is a member of the French Conseil d’Analyse Économique and holds affiliations with the Institut des politiques publiques, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and the European Economic Association. He has also served in editorial roles for leading academic journals.

*There may be an opportunity to purchase copies of the book after the event.