Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, e...
The World's Billionaires is a ranking of the world's richest billionaires by net worth, which is compiled and published annually in March by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987. The total net worth of each person on the list is estimated and expressed in...
A collective of DJs from Mexico City and Berlin - all women, all very good DJs, somewhere between downtempo and gloomy techno. Brilliant. Best you directly follow them on Soundcloud and Instagram.
Link: Souncloud. IG: @w_o_m_x_n
Lyrics: As soon as you’re born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all ‘Til the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate if you’re clever...
WID.world combines different data sources: national accounts, survey data, fiscal data, and wealth rankings. By doing so, it becomes possible to track more precisely the evolution of all income or wealth levels, from the bottom to the top. The key novelty of WID.world is to use such data in a system...
The report is based on data collected from more than 100 WID.world Fellows across five continents, compiled, unified and fed into the World Wealth and Income Database (see www.wid.world/team for more information).