Gabriel Zucman

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Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman (born October 30, 1986 in Paris ) is a French economist who has been an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley since 2015 .

Life

Zucman studied economics from 2005 to 2010 at the École normal supérieure de Cachan in Cachan in the Val-de-Marne department, southeast of Paris. During those years he had a full scholarship. He passed his master's degree at the École d'Économie de Paris in 2008 , where he received his doctorate from Thomas Piketty in 2013 . He called his doctoral thesis Three Essays on the Distribution of Wealth in the World . From 2010 to 2013 he was supported by a doctoral grant from the French Ministry of Research. From 2013 to 2014 he studied at the Economics Department and Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California at Berkeley , and has been an assistant professor at the university since 2015. From 2014 to 2016 he also worked at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Zucman is co-founder and editor of the half-yearly publication Regards croisés sur l'économie , which has been published at his alma mater since 2006 and has entered into partnerships with the École d'Économie de Paris and the Institut national d'études démograpiques (INED).

In 2013, Zucman published his book La richesse cachée des nations. Enquête sur les paradis fiscaux , an investigation into tax havens . The German translation was published in 2014 under the title Steueroasen. Where the prosperity of the nations is hidden at Suhrkamp Verlag. His approach: "We want to think about the tax system of the 21st century."

Zucman has published influential academic articles on wealth inequality and tax issues in recent years, including some papers with economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty . In addition, since 2015 he has been co-director of the World Wealth and Income Database (WID) , a project that aims to collate research results on global wealth and income inequality.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/CV.pdf
  2. ↑ Uwe Jean Heuser: What does fair mean here? zeit.de, July 19, 2014.
  3. ↑ http://wid.world/ , accessed on November 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Zucman, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French economist, professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris