Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz: "The rejection of the Zucman tax is proof of the power of the oligarchy"

When the French Senate rejected in June a bill introducing a minimum tax inspired by the work of economist Gabriel Zucman , Joseph Stiglitz did not see it as the end of the story. The 82-year-old professor of economics at Columbia University in New York, Nobel Prize winner in his field in 2001 and then the Peace Prize winner in 2007 with the other authors of the IPCC, had, shortly after the parliamentarians' vote, joined forces with six other Nobel laureates to support the introduction of a tax on the ultra-rich in France. A way, they argued in an article in Le Monde , for the country to show the way to the res