PARIS — Popular French economist Gabriel Zucman says French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu made a fatal mistake by not embracing his eponymous "Zucman tax." Zucman told POLITICO in an interview that ...

It's a subject that has caused a stir in French politics: the so-called Zucman tax. The proposal involves levying a minimum 2% tax on top of regular income tax on individuals who have assets of more ...

Libertarian anarchists used to say “taxation is theft.” New research by economist Gabriel Zucman suggests that there is some truth to this—when tax havens are taken into consideration. In his new book ...

Since the global financial crisis of 2007-09 the world has worried more about inequalities of wealth and income. That is in large part a result of work done by a band of French economists, in ...

The U.S. tax system, once viewed as a model for sharing the nation's bounty, is today a "new engine of inequality," said Gabriel Zucman, one of the world's leading experts on the rising gap between ...

Adolescent invocations of 'fairness' are no replacement for sound economic thinking ...

Gabriel Zucman, an economics professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley, addressed newly appointed Prime Minister ...

Fourteen months and three prime ministers into France’s seemingly intractable political crisis, the key to breaking the deadlock could well rest on a proposed wealth tax named after economist Gabriel ...