UC Berkeley
Department of Economics
530 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720
zucman@berkeley.edu
TEACHING
- Econ 133: Global Inequality and Growth, Spring 2019
- Econ 230B: Graduate Public Economics, Spring 2020
- Econ 231: Public Economics Seminar, Spring 2020
BOOKS
- COMING SOON: The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay (with Emmanuel Saez), WW Norton, 15 October 2019. Tax policy simulator: TaxJusticeNow.org
- The Hidden Wealth of Nations, University of Chicago Press, 2015. Second edition updated and extended, 2017, Le Seuil.
- World Inequality Report 2018 (with Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez), Harvard University Press. See World Inequality Database (WID.world)
PAPERS
- NEW: Progressive Wealth Taxation (with Emmanuel Saez), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2019, forthcoming.
- REVISED: The Missing Profits of Nations (with Thomas Tørsløv and Ludvig Wier), NBER working paper 24701, revised September 2019. See MissingProfits.world [Appendix & data webpage].
- Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark (with Katrine Jakobsen, Kristian Jakobsen, and Henrik Kleven), revised August 2019, forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics.
- The Exorbitant Tax Privilege (with Thomas Wright), NBER working paper 24983, September 2018. [Appendix & data webpage].
- Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance (with Annette Alstadsæter and Niels Johannesen), working paper, August 2018.
- Global Wealth Inequality, Annual Review of Economics, 2019, vol. 11: 109-138. [Data].
- Tax Evasion and Inequality (with Annette Alstadsæter and Niels Johannesen), American Economic Review, 2019, 109(6): 2073-2103. [Appendix & data webpage].
- Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015 (with Thomas Piketty and Li Yang), American Economic Review, 2019, 109(7): 2469-2496. [Appendix & data webpage].
- Who Owns the Wealth in Tax Havens? Macro Evidence and Implications for Global Inequality (with Annette Alstadsæter and Niels Johannesen), Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 162: 89-100. [Appendix & data webpage].
- Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States (with Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133(2): 553-609 [Appendix & data webpage].
- Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data (with Emmanuel Saez), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131(2): 519-578 [Appendix & data webpage].
- Taxing Across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 28(4): 121-148. [Appendix]. [Data].
- Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010 (with Thomas Piketty), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129(3): 1255-1310. [Appendix & data webpage].
- The End of Bank Secrecy? An Evaluation of the G20 Tax Haven Crackdown (with Niels Johannesen), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6(1): 65-91. [Appendix]. [Data].
- The Missing Wealth of Nations, Are Europe and the U.S. net Debtors or net Creditors?, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128(3): 1321-1364. [Appendix]. [Data].
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
- How Would a Progressive Wealth Tax Work? Evidence from the Economics Literature (with Emmanuel Saez), February 2019. See scoring of Sen. Warren’s wealth tax proposal. Response to Summers and Sarin.
- Simplified Distributional National Accounts (with Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez), American Economic Association P&P, 2019, vol. 109, p. 289-295.
- Challenges of Monitoring Tax Compliance by Multinational Firms: Evidence from Chile (with Sebastian Bustos, Dina Pomeranz, José Vila-Belda), American Economic Association P&P, 2019, vol. 109, p. 500-505.
- The Elephant Curve of Global Inequality and Growth (with Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez), American Economic Association P&P, 2018, 108: 103-108. [Data].
- From Communism to Capitalism: Private vs. Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia (with Filip Novokmet, Thomas Piketty and Li Yang), American Economic Association P&P, 2018, 108: 109-113.[Data].
- From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016 (with Filip Novokmet and Thomas Piketty), Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, vol. 16, n°2, p. 189-223 (special issue in honor of Tony Atkinson). [Appendix & data webpage].
- Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world (with Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez), American Economic Review P&P, 2017, 107(5): 404-409. [Longer NBER WP version]. [Data].
- Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines: Concepts and Methods used in WID.world (with Facundo Alvaredo, Tony Atkinson, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez), WID.world Working Paper 2016/1, December 2016.
- Wealth and Inheritance in the Long Run (with Thomas Piketty), Handbook of Income Distribution, vol. 2, 2015. [Data].
- Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation (with Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez), working paper, 2013.
- Three Essays on the World Distribution of Wealth, PhD dissertation, Paris School of Economics and EHESS, 2013.
- Les Hauts Patrimoines Fuient-Ils l’ISF ? Une Estimation sur la Période 1995-2006, Paris School of Economics master thesis, 2008.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLICY DEBATES
- Press articles on tax policy and inequality.