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PM could raise ‘tens of billions’ while positioning Britain as progressive, say Thomas Piketty and others

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty’s elite rulers.

A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen…

The author of Capital returns with a short book on inequality that asks big questions

Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins recently revealed the party is looking once again at its tax policy, including a possible wealth tax or a “capital income tax” (CIT).

The New Popular Front will improve ordinary people’s lives – and it’s an effective, economically sound alternative to the far right, say authors Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty

Research found that it was socioeconomic factors that determined the switch to the right for rural voters, rather than xenophobia.

Economist and author Phil Magness debunks a recent New York Times piece and shoddy academic work about the rich and their taxes.

Allowing more competition in the economy would naturally reduce the wealth share of the top 1% and also benefit the wider economy