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International Capital Tax Commission (ICRICT). Chaired by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and @jayatighosh.bsky.social

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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
$500 billion more in corporate tax a year. That's what governments would collect by taxing multinationals where they actually operate, not where they declare their profits. #ICRICT Co-Chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social on @news.abc.net.au 🎧 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #UNTaxConvention
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World Inequality Lab @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026
What inheritance tax rates do people consider appropriate? What drives these preferences: fairness concerns, self-interest, or government fiscal needs? To explore these questions, @edisonjakurti.bsky.social draws on data from 8,106 individuals across 11 European countries wid.world/news-article...
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Preferences for Inheritance Taxation in Europe: Experimental Evidence on Vertical Equity and Public Debt - WID - World Inequality Database
In this paper, Edison Jakurti studies how people think inheritances should be taxed using a randomized factorial vignette experiment with 8,106 respondents from probability-based panel surveys across ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/06/2026
The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman
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The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman
There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Thanks Martin Wolf for including “We need to tax billionaires” in the FT’s best books of 2026 ✊ www.ft.com/content/96e2...
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In bookstores across the US on August 25. If ever there was a time to act, it is now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done. Baloney. Economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social debunks their lies. Watch.
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How Would a Wealth Tax Work? (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist
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urpp-equality.bsky.social @urpp-equality.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Join us for the next URPP Lecture with economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. He will discuss global wealth inequality, billionaire taxation, and the case for a minimum tax on extreme wealth. 📅 5 October 2026 | 🕠 5:30 pm 📍 UZH, KOL-G-201 👉 Register: t.uzh.ch/1Xr
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"La peor corrupción es la evasión tributaria, y es la más generalizada", José Antonio Ocampo (#ICRICT) en El Colegio de México: combatir la evasión debe ser el objetivo de la cooperación tributaria internacional. Las nuevas tecnologías de información pueden fortalecer los mecanismos de control. 🎥
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
⏰ AHORA: Jose Antonio Ocampo comenta el libro "Los desafíos del sistema fiscal en México" junto a Gerardo Esquivel, @akroz.bsky.social, Nora Lustig y Raymundo Campos en el Colegio de México. 🕐 17 h CDMX | 20 h ARG 🔴 En vivo: youtube.com/live/ZNGYnvv...
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Join #ICRICT commissioner Irene Ovonji-Odida at the 14th Pan-African Conference on Illicit Financial Flows and Taxation, hosted by #TaxJusticeAfrica. Register to the live proceedings online: Day 1 (30 Sept): tjna.me/4devsGd Day 2 (1 Oct): tjna.me/4ho3BEE #PAC2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The arguments you've heard against California's billionaire tax are utter BS. Here to debunk them — and explain why you should vote YES on Prop 40 — is renowned economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📚"Los desafíos del sistema fiscal en México". Presenta el libro #JoseAntonioOcampo. 🗓️ 30/09 🕐 17 hs #CDMX. 📌Colegio de México, Sala Josefina Zoraida Vázquez. También en vivo 👉 youtube.com/live/ZNGYnvv... #ICRICT #JusticiaFiscal
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Presentación del libro "Los desafíos del sistema fiscal en México"
YouTube video by El Colegio de México A.C.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
W/@dacemoglumit.bsky.social Abhijit Banerjee Peter Diamond Esther Duflo & @pkrugman.bsky.social I signed a letter for Prop 40, CAs billionaire tax. A 1-time tax of 5% on wealth of CA's 250 billionaires would raise as much revenue as a 5% income tax on all CA taxpayers-about $100 billion rb.gy/7tejed
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Inequality is a political choice. Markets are designed to produce inequality." Our co-chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social at the #UNGA panel on extreme inequality and the affordability crisis worldwide. Rules can be rewritten. #UNGA81 #Inequality #TaxJustice @oxfaminternational.bsky.social
"Extreme Inequality and the Affordability Crisis Worldwide".

Panelistas: Tal Smith, autor de What We Can Afford y periodista de The New York Times · Pedro Vieira Abramovay, vicepresidente de Programas de Open Society Foundations · Jayati Ghosh · Jenny Ricks, secretaria general de Fight Inequality Alliance · Paul Smoke, director ejecutivo del NYU Center on International Cooperation.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The UN event today on an International Panel on Inequality went extremely well. If you are interested, you can watch at the link below. transcripts.un.org/en/asset/k1h...
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Addressing the Global Inequality Crisis - A High-Level Event on an International Panel on Inequality
Meetings & Events meeting, 23 September 2026. Read the automatic transcript with speaker identification — every speech, timestamped to the video.
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@gabrielzucman.bsky.social protagoniza «¡Cóbrame impuestos!» en @rtvecom.bsky.social. Allí defiende su propuesta: un impuesto mínimo del 2% al patrimonio de los 3.000 milmillonarios del mundo, que concentran USD 14 billones y pagan menos impuestos que los más pobres. 📺 www.rtve.es/play/videos/...
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thank you for posting this.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 22/09/2026
Six Nobel laureate economists, including our chief economist @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and senior fellow @pkrugman.bsky.social, are backing California’s billionaire tax. They argue a vote in the state with more billionaires than any other could help kick-start wealth taxes nationwide.
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Nobel economists throw support behind California billionaire tax
Progressive laureates say November ballot measure could ‘start reining in the power’ of ultra-wealthy
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A #UNTaxConvention would transform everybody's lives. Our co-chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social on the ongoing #UN negotiations: for the first time, everybody has a voice — unlike the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social talks. Remaking the UN, @projectsyndicate.bsky.social & @fordfoundation.bsky.social. 🎥👇
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
6 Nobel economists, including #ICRICT co-chair @josephestiglitz.bsky.social back California's #Prop40, a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires. - To create ~$100bn revenues to offset federal Medicaid cuts. - To kick-start a movement to tax extreme wealth worldwide. gabriel-zucman.eu/files/prop40...
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join our Co-Chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social at "Remaking the #UN," convened by @fordfoundation.bsky.social and @projectsyndicate.bsky.social during #UNGA High-Level Week. 🗓️21 Sept. ⏰ 4 PM EDT 📍NYC & Online Register here 🔗 shorturl.at/07OMJ
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So pleased and delighted that @nature.com ran our opinion piece on creating an International Panel on Inequality. The statistics are stark. The need extremely clear. The consequences, immense. rdcu.be/dZhv8zDjwRZa
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was such a pleasure, as always, to work with the Financial Times on my Weekend Essay on AI and the economy. www.ft.com/content/49c0...
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Joseph Stiglitz’s ‘progressive AI agenda’ for the economy
A slow rollout will disappoint investors. A fast one risks undermining the industry’s own foundations. But managed carefully, this technology could benefit us all
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When you see the statistics, and which direction they are headed, the need for an International Panel on Inequality is clear.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thank you @nature.com for your editorial supporting an International Panel on Inequality. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Global inequality panel is a chance for research to change lives
The scientific panel is welcomed. It must now invite all interested researchers to participate.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So pleased @theguardian.com covered the academics letter calling for an International Panel on Inequality. 1,500+ experts in 100+ countries, including @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, @jayatighosh.bsky.social, @mariannedhe.bsky.social, @dacemoglumit.bsky.social & so many more tinyurl.com/3y4ry4as
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Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Before the UN general assembly next week, I joined 1,500+ academics from 100+countries in calling on global leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC, as recommended by the G20 Committe on Inequality led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social last year. Please share.
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Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who benefits from AI, a few tech giants, or all of us? ICRICT Co-Chair @josephestiglitz.bsky.social lays out a "progressive AI agenda" in the @financialtimes.com: competition policy, real regulation, and taxing those profiting from the boom to fund what societies really value. shorturl.at/iKorY
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My wife Anya Schiffrin's paper looks at NYC influencers "There is a Signal group which the Mayor’s office uses to communicate with a hand-picked group of influencers. ... [&] pilot programs aimed at using influencers on Instagram and TikTok to promote city services" ipdcolumbia.org/wp-content/u...
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My wife @anyanyc.bsky.social's working paper, posted on @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, about social media and the NYC Mayor's Office has been getting some notice. She looks at influencers communicating info about NYC programs and policies. tinyurl.com/bac65rw3
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Mapping New York City influencers and funding of public messaging – Initiative for Policy Dialogue
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Appreciate TIME publishing my piece on the importance of public grocery stores time.com/article/2026...
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The Economics of Public Grocery Stores
Public grocery stores “hold out the promise of a healthier population and a more productive labor force,” writes Joseph E. Stiglitz.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Thank you to Amherst College for letting me write about my longtime friend and cherished colleague Ned Phelps. I miss him deeply. www.amherst.edu/news/news_re...
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Edmund Phelps ’55: He Wanted to Make Capitalism Work Better | 2026 | Edmund Phelps ’55: He Wanted to Make Capitalism Work Better | Amherst College
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are grateful to Heather Stewart of @theguardian.com for covering our open letter to PM Andy Burnham, urging him to sign up the UK to support the creation of a much-needed International Panel on Inequality www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Top economists urge Burnham to sign UK up to UN initiative on global inequality
Open letter signed by 40 academics including Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz and Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“La desigualdad es un problema enorme y definitorio para la humanidad.” Hay que gravar la riqueza para construir sociedades más estables y afrontar los desequilibrios de la tecnología, defiende @martinguzman.bsky.social en @elpais.com. 🔗 shorturl.at/dsWXF
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
$500 billion more in corporate tax a year. That's what governments would collect by taxing multinationals where they actually operate, not where they declare their profits. #ICRICT Co-Chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social on @news.abc.net.au 🎧 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #UNTaxConvention
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Le futur des règles fiscales mondiales se négocie maintenant à l’ONU. 🌍 @leoncendikumana.bsky.social a commissaire de l’ICRICT, écrit dans Financial Afrik sur l’enjeu de ces négociations pour l’Afrique, qui perd 97 milliards de dollars à cause de la fuite des capitaux. shorturl.at/VX8h5
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
El futuro de las reglas fiscales globales se negocia ahora en la ONU. 🇦🇷 Jose Antonio Ocampo, comisionado de #ICRICT, escribe en Clarín sobre por qué Argentina debe estar en la mesa y defender sus intereses. 🔗 shorturl.at/JRIB9
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
L'UN est le dernier recours de l'Afrique contre le pillage fiscal, écrit @leoncendikumana.bsky.social dans Le 360 Afrique Cette semaine, les négociations sur la #UNTaxConvention à New York sont une chance historique pour les droits fiscaux du continent. 🔗 shorturl.at/fUkQb
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thank you to @jonathansperling.bsky.social for his well-written article in @columbiabusiness.bsky.social's Insights about NYC Mayor Mamdani's plan for city grocery stores. My colleague Professor Lori Yue was also interviewed. business.columbia.edu/insights/mam...
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‘The market failures in the provision of food should not be a partisan matter’: Columbia Business School experts on the NYC-owned grocery store experiment | Columbia Business School
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says municipal grocery stores will lower the price of essential foods. CBS experts explain what the plan could fix and how the city should measure success.
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
En un contexto de desaceleración económica, Chile no puede llegar tarde a las negociaciones fiscales de ONU escribe Jose Antonio Ocampo (ICRICT) en @latercera.com . Participar en este proceso es clave para defender los intereses fiscales del país. 🔗 shorturl.at/AEgiK
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
While families struggle with sky-high energy bills and devastating heatwaves worsen the climate crisis, 8 oil giants pocketed billions from the war against Iran. Windfall gains from geopolitical shocks, undeserved and unjust. We called for windfall profit taxes in April: Here 🔗 shorturl.at/SVAc7
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
ICRICT Commissioner @leoncendikumana.bsky.social writes in Business Day that Africa should seize the opportunity to secure fairer global tax rules through the UN tax negotiations A stronger UN tax convention can curb illicit financial flows and help countries invest in development shorturl.at/Radua
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
$500 billion extra revenues every year. That's what countries would collect by taxing MNEs where they actually operate, according to @psiglobalunion.bsky.social / @taxjustice.net report. A #UNTaxConvention can make it happen. #ICRICT @jayatighosh.bsky.social in Projet Syndicate. 🔗 shorturl.at/5A92g
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nuestro comisionado José Antonio Ocampo escribe en @elpais.com que las negociaciones de @un.org sobre cooperación tributaria internacional son una oportunidad histórica para garantizar que las multinacionales y los superricos tributen allí donde generan valor. Aquí⬇️ elpais.com/economia/neg...
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 03/08/2026
"By restoring the link between where profits are made and where they are taxed, the #UNtaxConvention advances a modern form of taxation with representation and carries forward one of democracy’s oldest principle." - @icrict.bsky.social Co-Chair Jayati Ghosh www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...
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The Case for a Pay-Where-You-Play Tax System
Jayati Ghosh urges global policymakers to back a groundbreaking UN tax treaty that would end profit shifting.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Was delighted to speak with @ethosfera.bsky.social with my co-author, Maxim Ventura-Bolet, about our recent paper on AI and information distribution. Information is a public good. Who should finance it? Who pays when the ecosystem is polluted? Have a listen. open.spotify.com/episode/5cMY...
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Joseph Stiglitz on AI and the economics of truth
Voces con Ethos · Episode
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It was so nice to speak with @channel4news.bsky.social about the new Trump tariffs.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A new, inequality-informed approach to pandemic preparedness is both warranted and practical. We explain why. Our article in @nejm.org With Matt Kavanagh, PhD, Monica Geingos, L.L.B., Winnie Byanyima, M.Sc., and Michael G. Marmot, M.B., B.S., M.P.H., Ph.D. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The Inequality–Pandemic Cycle — Rethinking Preparedness | NEJM
Increasing pandemic frequency and increasing economic inequality are creating a self-reinforcing cycle. What’s needed is therefore a new, inequality-informed approach to pandemic preparedness.
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ICRICT @icrict.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
#ICRICT @jayatighosh.bsky.social warns that the world is facing an inequality emergency. As wealth becomes increasingly concentrated, global economy undermines democracy, deepening inequalities, and limiting countries' ability to invest in sustainable development. 🎥 shorturl.at/nKJ11
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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Maxim Ventura-Bolet and I were extremely pleased to speak with @ethosfera.bsky.social about our recent paper on AI. The thrust: AI will create a better-informed society only with changes to the incentives governing the information economy. observatoriodemedios.org/joseph-stigl...
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Joseph Stiglitz on AI and the economics of truth – Observatorio de Medios
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