The Economics of Taxing Wealth [November 2019]
Global Capitalism
English - November 14, 2019 21:41 - 1 hour - 175 MB - ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsPolitics News Education capitalism socialism globalcapitalism richarddwolff richardwolff wolff Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: US-China Trade Wars: Causes, Prospects, Risks [Sept 2019]
Next Episode: The Three Key Economic Issues of 2020
In connection with Wolff’s discussion of the main topic above, he will also cover the following issues at the November 13, 2019, event:
- Current wealth tax proposals by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren
- How US already taxes wealth (of some, not others}
- How other countries tax wealth
- How US enables/allows wealth to escape taxes
- Redistributing wealth: pros and cons- The protest movements in Chile, Lebanon and beyond and how they differ from those in Hong Kong
- The overdue critique of “libertarian” capitalism