Tues 4/15 @ 5:00PM
McCosh Hall Room 50, Princeton University

The rise of extreme wealth has been a defining feature of the U.S. and global economy over the past 15 years. Addressing this challenge requires the invention of new institutions, policies, and forms of cooperation capable of ensuring that democracy prevails over oligarchy.  This lecture will examine current efforts in this direction and outline perspectives for the future.  

Gabriel Zucman is a chaired professor at the Paris School of Economics (since 2023), a Summer Research Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the International Tax Observatory in Paris.  He is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on tax evasion, both at the household and at the corporate level, and a major contributor to the literature on measuring and explaining the rise in economic inequality. His 2015 book The Hidden Wealth of Nations: the Scourge of Tax Havensexamined the ways in which tax havens hide wealth and drive global inequality.  Some of Zucman’s honors include the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association, the Bernacer Prize, Sloan Research Fellowship, Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and the Best Young French Economist Prize. 

To watch via Princeton's MediaCentral livestream, click here (this link will go live a few minutes before the lecture begins)

This event is sponsored by the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies and is presented by Princeton University Public Lectures as part of the Uwe Reinhardt Distinguished Lecture Series.