We Need to Tax Billionaires

If you want to understand why you are getting poorer, and, crucially, how to fix it, you have to read Gabriel Zucman. Finally - not just why, but crucially HOW to tax the super-rich – Gary Stevenson, bestselling author of THE TRADING GAME
It’s a taxing moment to be talking about taxing the billionaires. They are fighting back with their money, power and lies. This is a book that, soberly, and yet with passion and care, exposes those and builds the case that the world needs and can get them to pay their fair share – Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, 2019 Nobel laureates in Economics
Gabriel Zucman knows more about billionaires and their wealth than anyone but the billionaires themselves – Oliver Bullough, bestselling author of MONEYLAND
Billionaires have used every excuse in the book to justify paying lower tax rates than their fellow compatriots, but they’ve finally met their match in Gabriel Zucman. In this book, Zucman rips every last page out of billionaires’ tax excuse book and also, critically, lays out a refreshingly simple tax plan to get society on a more equitable, sustainable path – Abigail Disney, Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
This is economics at its most useful. Read it, share it, and let’s get on with it – Rutger Bregman, bestselling author of MORAL AMBITION
Powerful – Martin Wolf, Financial Times ‘Best Summer Books of 2026’

Gabriel Zucman is a professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics and Summer Research Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the founding director of the International Tax Observatory. Zucman previously taught at the London School of Economics.

He is the author of two books:

• The Triumph of Injustice
• The Hidden Wealth of Nations

Zucman has received numerous awards, including the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association, which is awarded to an economist under the age of forty who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.

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