Possible Worlds: The New Treaties of Globalization

Gabriel Zucman is an associate professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality. He also serves as director of the EU Tax Observatory, an independent research laboratory hosted at the Paris School of Economics. Zucman’s research focuses on the accumulation, distribution and taxation of global wealth and has renewed the analysis of the macroeconomic and distributional implications of globalization. In addition to numerous articles, he has authored two books: “The Hidden Wealth of Nations” (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and “The Triumph of Injustice” (with Emmanuel Saez, W.W. Norton, 2019). Zucman has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and a Sloan Research Fellow and has received the Bernácer Prize; the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy; and the Best Young French Economist Prize from Le Monde and le Cercle des Économistes.

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