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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 co-author, 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.
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