Gary Stevenson

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Garys Economics · The economist billionaires fear: this is how we get a wealth tax. Meeting Gabriel Zucman · 24 May 2026 podcast

Would you be able to tell us a little bit about where you're from, what was life like growing up and how you ended up studying economics?

Okay.

How old were you when you were living in San Francisco?

I'm really interested in this move you've made from academia into basically actively trying to fight inequality.

because it's not an easy move to make.

I want to talk a little bit about that, but before I get onto that, I just want to know a little bit about what it was like for you within academia

working on and trying to work on inequality.

So I did a master's at Oxford 2017 to 2019.

And I went there with basically the intention of working on inequality.

They had one guy there who worked on inequality.

I think it was Tony Atkinson.

He died before I went there.

He was about like 85 or something.

And then there was nobody in the entire Oxford economics department working on inequality.

I tried my best to choose subjects that were about inequality.

I couldn't find a single one.

I wrote my thesis about inequality.

I couldn't find a supervisor.

I had to go outside of the department.

And when I was there, the general consensus was you will not be able to succeed as an academic in academic economics if you choose inequality as your focus.

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