The Role of Corporate Taxation in Ethics and Politics

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The way that it pans out and the way that I describe and sort of historicize it in the book is often kind of mind-bending. And it's the kind of thing that for sure people like Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Succman and Thomas Piketty, you know, by putting taxation back at the center of our idea of ethics and politics, they've really made this more tangible," he says.

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