Gary Stevenson

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5,834 appearances 16 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 26 Jul

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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

We're seriously looking at inequality.

So, you know, the work that he's done and the work that you've done and Emmanuel Sayers, you know, a group of French economists, was really inspirational for me.

So thank you for that.

And send my thanks to Buketi.

I know you speak to him a lot.

But I want to get on to your political work because you've made this...

A big shift, which to me is super interesting because I don't see many, I mean in a sense it's a shift that I've made as well, but I don't see many people who are sort of top level academics who've decided, you know what, and correct me if you don't think this is a correct description of what you've been doing, but it seems to me like you've really decided, I'm going to really shift my focus into not just writing papers and getting prestigious positions on this,

I want to try to do something about, you know, your book is called We Need to Tax Billionaires, which is quite political.

Like, why did you decide, you know, I'm going to, you know, you have a very good record in economics.

You know, you're a professor at a couple of very good universities.

You could very easily have just written a couple of, you know, op-eds in newspapers and had a few rounds of applause.

But from what I've seen of your work, you know, you've got a big presence on social media.

You know, you're making videos on Instagram.

You've got something like 300,000 followers on Instagram.

You know, correct me if I'm wrong.

I suspect that's maybe not what you...

imagine your life going in that direction a number of years ago why did you make this big shift into like and and also you know you have become very well known in france that the the form of taxation on the super rich which is popular in france is known as the zuckman tax which is your name your your face um i would guess you've sacrificed a lot of you know

your privacy for this?

What made you decide to take this hard turn and really try to become aggressively politically active?

Has it been difficult for you personally?

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