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Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2019), Chapter One.
William Wright and Christian Benson, “The Crisis of Capitalism—A Summary,” New Financial, November 2019, https://newfinancial.org/report-the-crisis-of-capitalism.
Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan, The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do About It (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014).
Maya Kosoff, “Billionaires Jack Dorsey and Marc Benioff Spar over How to Solve Homelessness,” Vanity Fair Hive, October 12, 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/billionaires-jack-dorsey-and-marc-benioff-spar-over-how-to-solve-homelessness.
Matthew Gardner, Lorena Roque, and Steve Wamhoff, “Corporate Tax Avoidance in the First Year of the Trump Tax Law,” Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, December 16, 2019, https://itep.org/corporate-tax-avoidance-in-the-first-year-of-the-trump-tax-law.
Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis, Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020), Chapter One.
Kimberly A. Clausing, “Profit Shifting Before and After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” National Tax Journal 1233–1266 (2020), UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 20-10, June 3, 2020, 73(4), available at SSRN https://ssrn.com/abstract=3274827 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3274827.
Nick Paumgarten, “Magic Mountain,” The New Yorker, March 5, 2012.
Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth,” North American Review, June 1889.
Address by the Honorable Henry Morgenthau Jr. at the closing plenary session of the Bretton Woods conference, July 22, 1944, accessed by Fraser at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/historical/eccles/036_17_0004.pdf.
Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (New York: Penguin Books, 2012), Chapter One.
Milton Friedman, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
Sam Long, “The Financialization of the American Elite,” American Affairs 3, no. 3 (Fall 2019), https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/the-financialization-of-the-american-elite/.
A comprehensive examination of the negotiations that produced China’s accession deal can be found in Paul Blustein’s book, Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2019).
Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen, and Paul Kiel, “The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax,” ProPublica, June 8, 2021, https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax.
Thomas Piketty, Li Yang, and Gabriel Zucman, “Capital Accumulation, Private Property, and Rising Inequality in China, 1978–2015,” American Economic Review, 109, no. 7 (July 2019), https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20170973.
Franklin Foer, “Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan,” The Atlantic, November 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/what-jeff-bezos-wants/598363.
Alec MacGillis, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2021), 86–87.
Servaas Storm, “How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades,” Institute for New Economic Thinking, April 10, 2019, https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-to-ruin-a-country-in-three-decades.
“Italians Are Europe’s Worst Tax Cheats (Again . . .),” Local, September 7, 2016, https://www.thelocal.it/20160907/italians-europe-vat-tax-evasion-dodge-again.
Richard Wike, Laura Silver, and Alexandra Castillo, “Many Across the Globe Are Dissatisfied with How Democracy Is Working,” Pew Research Center, April 29, 2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/04/29/many-across-the-globe-are-dissatisfied-with-how-democracy-is-working.
Suzy Hansen, “How Zara Grew into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer,” The New York Times Magazine, November 9, 2012.
Guy Standing, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (London: Bloomsbury, 2011), Chapter One.
Shaun Walker, “Matteo Salvini; Vote for Nationalists to Stop European Caliphate,” Guardian, May 2, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/02/matteo-salvini-vote-for-nationalist-parties-stop-islamic-caliphate.
Andy Beckett, “The Real George Osborne,” Guardian, November 28, 2011.
Duff McDonald, “The Heist,” New York, March 21, 2008.
Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It (New York: Knopf, 2020), Chapter Three.
Eamon Javers, “Inside Obama’s Bank CEOs Meeting,” Politico, April 3, 2009, https://www.politico.com/story/2009/04/inside-obamas-bank-ceos-meeting-020871.
Edward Yardeni, Joe Abbott, and Mali Quintana, “Corporate Finance Briefing: S&P 500 Buybacks & Dividends,” Yardeni Research, Inc., August 21, 2020; as cited in William Lazonick and Matt Hopkins, “How ‘Maximizing Shareholder Value’ Minimized the Strategic National Stockpile: The $5.3 Trillion Question for Pandemic Preparedness Raised by the Ventilator Fiasco,” Institute for New Economic Thinking, July 2020,
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Chuck Collins, Omar Ocampo, and Sophia Paslaski, “Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes, and Pandemic Profiteers,” Institute for Policy Studies, April 23, 2020, https://ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Billionaire-Bonanza-2020.pdf.
William Schomberg and Guy Faulconbridge, “Hedge Fund Managers Crispin Odey and Paul Marshall Say Brexit Would Help London,” Reuters, April 29, 2016.
Sylvain Tronchet, Julie Guesdon, and Cellule investigation de Radio France, “Half of Emmanuel Macron’s Campaign Funded by Major Donors,” Radio France, May 3, 2019, https://www.franceculture.fr/politique/comment-800-grands-donateurs-ont-finance-la-moitie-de-la-campagne-demmanuel-macron.
Antton Rouget, Mathilde Matthieu, Mathieu Magnaudeix, and Martine Orange, “Macron Leaks: The Secrets of an Extraordinary Fundraising Operation,” Mediapart, May 21, 2017, https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/210517/macron-leaks-les-secrets-dune-levee-de-fonds-hors-norme?onglet=full.
Peter S. Goodman, “Europe Is Back. And Rejecting Trumpism,” New York Times, January 24, 2018, p. B3.
S. Goodman, “Nordic-Style Designs Sit at Heart of French Labor Plan,” New York Times, October 26, 2017, p. B1, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/business/france-labor-reform-economy-macron.html.
Eleanor Beardsley, “In France, The Protests of May 1968 Reverbate Today—and Still Divide the French,” National Public Radio, May 29, 2018, https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/05/29/613671633/in-france-the-protests-of-may-1968-reverberate-today-and-still-divide-the-french.
Jacques Monin, Radio France Investigation Unit, February 21, 2019, https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/gilets-jaunes/l-histoire-secrete-de-la-reforme-de-l-isf-elle-a-ete-precipitee-sous-la-pression-deconomistes-et-de-grands-patrons_3199431.html.
Report from MM. Vincent Eble and Alberic de Montgolfier, on behalf of Senate Finance Committee, October 9, 2019, https://www.senat.fr/notice-rapport/2019/r19-042-1-notice.html.
Alissa J. Rubin, “That’s ‘Mr. President’ to You: Macron Scolds French Student,” New York Times, June 20, 2018, p. A5, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/world/europe/france-president-macron.html.
Suzanna Andrews, “Larry Fink’s $12 Trillion Shadow,” Vanity Fair, March 2, 2010.
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves (New York: Penguin Books, 2009), Chapter Seven.
Liz Rappaport and Susanne Craig, “BlackRock Wears Multiple Hats,” Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2009, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124269131342732625.
Odile Benyahia-Kouider, “Comment L’Elysée a déroulé le tapis rouge au roi de Wall Street,” Le Canard Enchaîné, October 26, 2017.
Jill Treanor and Rowena Mason, “Buy, George? World’s Largest Fund Manager Hires Osborne as Adviser,” Guardian, January 20, 2017.
Liz Alderman, “A Wall Street Giant Is Fueling Anticapitalist Fervor in France,” New York Times, February 15, 2020, p. A1.
Letter to Schwarzman from Surya Deva, Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the issue of human rights, and Leilani Farha, Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, United Nations, March 22, 2019, https://www.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/WopiFrame.aspx?sourcedoc=/Documents/Issues/Housing/Financialization/OL_OTH_17_2019.pdf&action=default&DefaultItemOpen=1.
Johan Stenebo, The Truth About IKEA: The Secret Behind the World’s Fifth Richest Man and the Success of the Flatpack Giant (United Kingdom: Gibson Square, 2010), Chapter Nine.
Claes Belfrage and Markus Kallifatides, “Financialisation and the New Swedish Model,” Cambridge Journal of Economics 2018, 882.
Andreas Bergh, “The Swedish Economy,” Milken Institute Review, January 1, 2017.
James B. Stewart, “The Birthday Party,” The New Yorker, February 4, 2008.
