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If you see a little Piketty in this tax-haven book, that's fine

21 September 2015

Look out, Thomas Piketty. Here comes Gabriel Zucman. With a slim new book that has the feel of Piketty's bestselling Capital in the 21st Century, Zucman, a baby-faced 28-year-old University of California-Berkeley economist, is taking his own swing at global capitalism. His target: tax havens that he says hide $7.6 trillion - about 8 percent of the world's net financial wealth.

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Related publications
The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Gabriel Zucman, The University of Chicago Press, September 2015 ISBN: 9780226245423
Details
'Inequality: Are we really 'all in this together'?', Gabriel Zucman, CEP 2015 Election Analyses Series, April 2015 Abstract | Full paper

Related links
Gabriel Zucman webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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