Income and Wealth Inequality: Emmanuel Saez

Income and Wealth Inequality: Evidence and Policy Implications (October 10, 2017)

How is inequality connected to our schools, our governments, and even the taxes we pay? In this lecture, Emmanuel Saez will present evidence on income and wealth inequality gathered by a group of researchers in the World Top Incomes Database. The database includes top income and wealth share for more than twenty countries. Saez will explain the key findings, focusing particularly on the United States, and will discuss the role of technology, globalization, education, government regulations, and tax policy in explaining those findings.

Emmanuel Saez holds the Chancellor’s Professorship of Tax Policy and Public Finance and is director of the Center for Equitable Growth at UC Berkeley. He was awarded the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association in 2009 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.

 

This lecture is part of the A New Social Compact? series, sponsored by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford Continuing Studies, the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, the Department of Sociology, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and the Program on Urban Studies.