Gabriel Zucman

We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world’s wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of the world’s wealth hidden...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The most important economist in the world today'GARY STEVENSON'Read it, share it and let's get on with it'RUTGER BREGMAN'Zucman knows more about billionaires and their wealth than anyone but the billionaires themselves'OLIVER BULLOUGH'Powerful'MARTIN WOLF, FINANCIAL TIMESWhy do billionaires pay less tax than you?Billionaires often pay a lower income tax rate than nurses, teachers and almost everyone else...

Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionised the study of inequality. Eschewing anecdotes and case studies, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel...

Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have had their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionised the study of inequality. Eschewing anecdotes and case studies, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel...