by Deirdre Fulton | Nov 24, 2016 | Issue 8, Journal, News, Volume 15
Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein accepted the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize in Australia on Friday, delivering a searing speech that reflected on Donald Trump’s presidential victory in the United States and the factors that allowed it to happen.’If there...
by Thomas Piketty | Nov 24, 2016 | News
Let it be said at once: Trump’s victory is primarily due to the explosion in economic and territorial inequality in the United States over several decades and the incapacity of successive governments to deal with these. Both the Clinton and the Obama, administrations...
by Evatt Foundation | Nov 24, 2016 | Issue 8, Journal, News, Volume 15
New research confirms that as Australian cities get bigger a disproportionate amount of the wealth is going to the top income earners, breeding greater inequality within and between cities.Dr Somwrita Sarkar from the University of Sydney’s Sydney Urban Lab and lead...
by Evatt Foundation | Nov 8, 2016 | Issue 7, Journal, News, Volume 15
Drawing on Evatt’s new report The Wealth of the Nation, Frank Stilwell has suggested that an inheritance tax could be applied on wealth valued at over $2 million, which he estimates would only affect about 5 per cent of Australian households.Emeritus Professor...
by Evatt Foundation | Nov 8, 2016 | Issue 7, Journal, News, Volume 15
An inheritance tax makes perfect sense, says Thomas Piketty.Among the lighter moments of Thomas Piketty’s talk at the Sydney Opera House were the economist’s references to Australia’s low inheritance tax, this being ‘zero’, as he noted...
by Joseph Stiglitz | Oct 11, 2016 | Issue 6, Journal, News, Volume 15
Joseph Stiglitz speaks with Richard Eskow about his new book.Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has a new book out entitled The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe. On The Zero Hour, we spoke with Professor Stiglitz about the tension...
