Pursuits
If You See a Little Piketty in This Tax-Haven Book, That's Fine
- Gabriel Zucman blasts Swiss in `The Hidden Wealth of Nations'
- Economist's acolyte sees widening inequality due to tax policy
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Look out, Thomas Piketty. Here comes Gabriel Zucman.
With a slim new book that has the feel of Piketty’s bestselling “Capital in the 21st Century,” Zucman, a baby-faced 28-year-old University of California-Berkeley economist, is taking his own swing at global capitalism. His target: tax havens that he says hide $7.6 trillion -- about 8 percent of the world’s net financial wealth.