Blog: Economists
By Stephany Griffith-Jones of Columbia University and Avinash Persaud, Chairman of Intelligence Capital. This blog looks at progress in Europe.
Far from sending taxpayers rushing for the exit, this tax gets more foreigners to pay it than any other.
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is...
Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman has today reiterated his support for a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions.
Writing in the New York Times, Krugman suggested a tax on both financial transactions and high incomes as a way of raising revenue.
Speaking about a Financial Transaction Tax, Krugman said:
“And...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the latest global figure to come out in support of the Robin Hood Tax campaign.
Writing in Saturday’s Guardian, he urged G20 leaders to get behind Sarkozy and ‘introduce a tax on financial transactions to help low-income countries hit by the economic crisis and to protect poor people from climate change’.
He said that a failure to reach global agreement should not be an excuse for leaders not to...
We know that bank taxes can are a complicated issue. In order to clear up the confusion the Robin Hood Tax campaign was delighted to have Professor Joseph Stiglitz on hand to explain why and how they should work. He took part in a media call with representatives of big media outlets in eleven countries.
Professor Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (...
