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The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
Current price:
$17.95
Publication Date: October 20th, 2020
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393531732
Pages:
284
Description
“The most important book on government policy that I’ve read in a long time.” —David Leonhardt, New York Times
Even as they have become fabulously wealthy, the ultra-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 presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who have revolutionized the study of inequality. Blending history and cutting-edge economic analysis, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer a comprehensive view of America’s tax system alongside a visionary, democratic, and practical reinvention of taxes.
Praise for The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
In an age when the primary instinct of many left-leaning people is to yearn for a time machine, [The Triumph of Injustice] is a bracing and brave formulation of a radical new approach to public funding.
— Oliver Bullough - Guardian
Crystal clear, rigorously empirical.… It’s the to-do list for the next president.
— Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists
In 2018, for the first time in more than one hundred years, billionaires paid a lower tax rate than ordinary workers, crowning the dismantling of America’s system of progressive taxation. In this eye-opening book, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman show that there is no iron law of economics that led us here, just many whose self-interest or misunderstanding of economics make them claim the opposite. Their radical proposal to reinvent taxation for a globalized world will become an unavoidable starting point to any intelligent conversation.
— Esther Duflo, coauthor of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
America is tired of inequality and oligarchy. Armed with eye-popping new data, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman reveal how tax injustice is fueling the oligarchic drift. But above all, they propose bold solutions to help America reconnect with its tradition of tax justice, from the taxation of extreme wealth and giant corporations to the funding of health care for all. This is a brilliantly argued book that is an essential contribution to the global economic and political debate of the twenty-first century.
— Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The Triumph of Injustice ?is a groundbreaking work that uncovers a diabolical driver of America’s shocking and growing inequality: unfair and regressive tax policies and a tax-avoidance industry that serves the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Until we reverse this topsy-turvy regime—where ordinary workers may pay a larger share of their income than the very richest Americans—we can’t hope to address our biggest social problems. Anyone who hopes for a better future for everyday Americans needs to read this book.
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
