Bibliograph

The triumph of injustice, how the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

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The triumph of injustice, how the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The triumph of injustice

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1121628961

Responsibility statement

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

Sub title

how the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay

Summary

"A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-our tax system. 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 revolutionized 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 fueled this trend: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax-avoidance industry; and, most critically, tax competition between nations. It is not too late to change course. Instead of competition, we could choose cooperation, finding ways to create a tax regime that serves universal, democratic ends. The Triumph of Injustice offers a visionary and practical reinvention of taxes for that globalized world"--, Provided by the publisher

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