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What’s New in Economics
Georgism in Today’s Economic News
On Tuesday, June 25, the Economic Policy Institute and the Institute for Policy Studies will host a day-long conference on “Taxing the (Very) Rich.”
The conference will highlight the importance of taxing ultra-high earners to any serious effort to combat inequality and raise living standards for the vast majority. A prestigious group of policy experts and activists will discuss the necessity of raising taxes on the very rich, and debate various proposals for doing so.
Paul Krugman, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) will deliver keynote addresses and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) will speak at a closing reception:
Welcome remarks
Thea Lee, Economic Policy Institute
Keynote address: Dangers of Excessive Wealth Disorder
Paul Krugman, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Remarks by Alan Davis, WhyNot Initiative
How Excessive Wealth Disorder Hurts Economic Growth
Heather Boushey, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Capturing Democracy
Nancy MacLean, Duke University
Keynote address
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Ways We Can Tax the Very Rich
Moderator: Sarah Anderson, IPS
Chye-Ching Huang, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Greg Leiserson, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Lily Batchelder, New York University School of Law
Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute
Keynote address
Sen. Chris Van Hollen
Rich Wrecking Things
Barbara Ehrenreich
How Excessive Wealth Disorder Hurts the Environment
Jacqueline Patterson, NAACP Environmental & Climate Justice
How We Can Move the Agenda to Tax the Very Rich
Moderator: Thea Lee, EPI
Celinda Lake, Lake Research Partners
Erica Payne, Patriotic Millionaires
Frank Clemente, Americans for Tax Fairness
Dorian Warren, Community Change
Corrupting Philanthropy: Fixing the Rules to Curb Billionaire Influence
Ray Madoff, Boston College Law School
The Racial Wealth Divide
Valerie Wilson, EPI
What a Campaign to Tax the Very Rich Look Like in the Field
Moderator: Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies
Stephanie Taylor, Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Shailly Gupta Barnes, Kairos Center and Poor People’s Campaign
Sarita Gupta, Jobs with Justice
Connie Razza, Center for Popular Democracy
Closing Remarks
Thea Lee, Economic Policy Institute
Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies
Remarks from Rep. Pramila Jayapal