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Emmanuel Saez is E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coauthor, with Gabriel Zucman, of The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay.
For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.
Emmanuel Saez and David Grusky discuss why taxation, though a blunt instrument, might be the best available solution.
For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.
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