Emmanuel Saez

The Triumph of Injustice

How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

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Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists who revolutionised the study of inequality, demonstrate how the super-rich pay a lower tax rate than everybody else. In crystalline prose they dissect the deliberate choices and the sins of indecision that have fuelled this trend: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax-avoidance industry and, most critically, tax… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Zucman, Gabriel

ISBN: 978-1-324-00272-7
EAN: 9781324002727
Produktnummer: 31703677
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 232 S.
Masse: H23.7 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.3 cm 477 g
Gewicht: 477

Über den Autor

Emmanuel Saez is professor of economics and director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on tax policy and inequality from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. With Thomas Piketty, he has constructed long-run historical series of income inequality in the United States that have been widely discussed in public debate. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1999. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 2009 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.