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LECTURE: Fair Shares: Exploring the Role of Wealth Taxes in Modern Economies

LECTURE: Fair Shares: Exploring the Role of Wealth Taxes in Modern Economies

Update: 2025-09-30
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Wealth taxes are one of today's most debated economic policy topics and often proposed as a way to bolster increasingly strained government budgets, reduce income inequality, and make the tax system more fair. The Fall 2025 Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute roundtable featured Professor Florian Scheuer of the University of Zurich and HHEI Director Professor Kjetil Storesletten discussing the potential benefits and challenges of wealth taxes, highlighting recent experiences in Norway and Switzerland and discuss implications for implementing wealth taxes in the United States. Chris Farrell, a senior economics contributor for Marketplace and MPR News, moderated the discussion and audience Q&A.

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LECTURE: Fair Shares: Exploring the Role of Wealth Taxes in Modern Economies

LECTURE: Fair Shares: Exploring the Role of Wealth Taxes in Modern Economies

Heller Hurwicz