Antonio Savoia
@antoniosavoia.bsky.social
Academic, University of Manchester
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Bercy sait... et se tait : comment le ministère entretient le secret de Polichinelle des riches qui ne paient pas un centime d'impôt sur le revenu
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/MQY
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/MQY
January 15, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Bercy sait... et se tait : comment le ministère entretient le secret de Polichinelle des riches qui ne paient pas un centime d'impôt sur le revenu
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/MQY
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/MQY
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We're up and running with the Too Much Finance conference! Prof Thorsten Beck is giving the first keynote taxjustice.net/events/too-m...
January 14, 2026 at 9:13 AM
We're up and running with the Too Much Finance conference! Prof Thorsten Beck is giving the first keynote taxjustice.net/events/too-m...
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There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what this new study based on our historical series available on wid.world is clearly showing.
Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇
Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇
Does #equality promote #inclusion and #productivity, or hinder #growth❓
🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.
Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.
Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 - WID - World Inequality Database
Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 This paper combines income and wealth inequality series from the World Inequality Database (WID) and new global series on hou...
wid.world
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
There is a strong positive association between equality and development over the long run — that's what this new study based on our historical series available on wid.world is clearly showing.
Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇
Key findings in thread 🧵(1/9)👇
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The disaster of social sciences and humanities
Top economists write to ask Netanyahu to become a nice guy and stop killing civilians.
"Respectfully".....
drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv...
Top economists write to ask Netanyahu to become a nice guy and stop killing civilians.
"Respectfully".....
drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv...
Letter to PM Netanyahu from 23 economists.pdf
drive.google.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The disaster of social sciences and humanities
Top economists write to ask Netanyahu to become a nice guy and stop killing civilians.
"Respectfully".....
drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv...
Top economists write to ask Netanyahu to become a nice guy and stop killing civilians.
"Respectfully".....
drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv...
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Stokes on Inequality and Democratic Backsliding
In her forthcoming @princetonupress.bsky.social book, Susan Stokes makes a case that the key factor that explains democratic erosion is income inequality.👇
I'll be reading this book.
For information on the book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
In her forthcoming @princetonupress.bsky.social book, Susan Stokes makes a case that the key factor that explains democratic erosion is income inequality.👇
I'll be reading this book.
For information on the book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
July 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Stokes on Inequality and Democratic Backsliding
In her forthcoming @princetonupress.bsky.social book, Susan Stokes makes a case that the key factor that explains democratic erosion is income inequality.👇
I'll be reading this book.
For information on the book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
In her forthcoming @princetonupress.bsky.social book, Susan Stokes makes a case that the key factor that explains democratic erosion is income inequality.👇
I'll be reading this book.
For information on the book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Dahl and Political Equality
I am rereading Dahl’s 𝘖𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. Dahl’s focus on big important questions, clarity of thought and straight-forward language makes this an engaging book.
I am rereading Dahl’s 𝘖𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. Dahl’s focus on big important questions, clarity of thought and straight-forward language makes this an engaging book.
July 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Dahl and Political Equality
I am rereading Dahl’s 𝘖𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. Dahl’s focus on big important questions, clarity of thought and straight-forward language makes this an engaging book.
I am rereading Dahl’s 𝘖𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. Dahl’s focus on big important questions, clarity of thought and straight-forward language makes this an engaging book.
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An international call for action just got louder:
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists
OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...
www.lemonde.fr
July 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
An international call for action just got louder:
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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Quelle que soit la façon dont on regarde les choses, les milliardaires sont considérablement moins imposés que le reste de la population dans son ensemble
Merci au Grand Continent de m’avoir permis de revenir sur cette réalité incontestable et inacceptable
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/07/0...
Merci au Grand Continent de m’avoir permis de revenir sur cette réalité incontestable et inacceptable
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/07/0...
Comment taxer les ultrariches ? Cadrer le débat sur l’impôt plancher | Le Grand Continent
Adoptée à l’Assemblée, rejetée pour l’instant au Sénat : le parlement votera-t-il la « taxe Zucman » qui prévoit une imposition minimale sur le patrimoine des ultrariches en France ? Depuis qu’elle e...
legrandcontinent.eu
July 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Quelle que soit la façon dont on regarde les choses, les milliardaires sont considérablement moins imposés que le reste de la population dans son ensemble
Merci au Grand Continent de m’avoir permis de revenir sur cette réalité incontestable et inacceptable
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/07/0...
Merci au Grand Continent de m’avoir permis de revenir sur cette réalité incontestable et inacceptable
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/07/0...
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As I mentioned, Israel has had an extraordinary fast increase in inequality, exceeding around 2010s even inequality in the US (Israel's Gini of 43 which is close to Latin American levels). Inequality has since gone down to Gini of 38 which is still a very high number.
June 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
As I mentioned, Israel has had an extraordinary fast increase in inequality, exceeding around 2010s even inequality in the US (Israel's Gini of 43 which is close to Latin American levels). Inequality has since gone down to Gini of 38 which is still a very high number.
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New @lisdata.bsky.social include for the first time micro data on income distribución in Bulgaria. Somewhat surprisingly, they show very high recent inequality, with a Gini around 40 which is the highest inequality in Europe, similar to the Ginis in the US and Israel. For comparison, Poland.
June 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
New @lisdata.bsky.social include for the first time micro data on income distribución in Bulgaria. Somewhat surprisingly, they show very high recent inequality, with a Gini around 40 which is the highest inequality in Europe, similar to the Ginis in the US and Israel. For comparison, Poland.
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Algeria's distribution data are notoriously difficult (impossible) to get. Yet in 2008, they published consumption distribution for 2000-01 (sic!). Top decile consumes 10 times more than the bottom. Gini of 34 for consumption probably implies a Gini of over 40 for income, a substantial number.
April 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Algeria's distribution data are notoriously difficult (impossible) to get. Yet in 2008, they published consumption distribution for 2000-01 (sic!). Top decile consumes 10 times more than the bottom. Gini of 34 for consumption probably implies a Gini of over 40 for income, a substantial number.
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Concepts that are meaningless or free of empirical
confirmation:
Degrowth
Middle-income trap
Good jobs
Resource curse
Cultural explanation of economic growth
Most of aid to poor countries
confirmation:
Degrowth
Middle-income trap
Good jobs
Resource curse
Cultural explanation of economic growth
Most of aid to poor countries
April 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Concepts that are meaningless or free of empirical
confirmation:
Degrowth
Middle-income trap
Good jobs
Resource curse
Cultural explanation of economic growth
Most of aid to poor countries
confirmation:
Degrowth
Middle-income trap
Good jobs
Resource curse
Cultural explanation of economic growth
Most of aid to poor countries
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Deranged. Will secure the collapse of a significant part of the UK university system, at a time when there is a lot of money to be made out of it, for no political return. If the case is explained properly most will not mind foreign students coming.
April 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Deranged. Will secure the collapse of a significant part of the UK university system, at a time when there is a lot of money to be made out of it, for no political return. If the case is explained properly most will not mind foreign students coming.
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In a blog for @eadi.bsky.social, Andy Sumner (@andypsumner.bsky.social) writes about the Arthur Lewis workshop that took place at GDI at the end of 2024.
What is the Salience of Arthur Lewis’ Ideas for Understanding Global Inequality Today?
Read here: www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2172
What is the Salience of Arthur Lewis’ Ideas for Understanding Global Inequality Today?
Read here: www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2172
What is the Salience of Arthur Lewis’ Ideas for Understanding Global Inequality Today?
By Andy Sumner Seventy years ago, Arthur Lewis wrote a seminal paper on economic development in the Global South. At a workshop at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, conven…
www.developmentresearch.eu
March 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
In a blog for @eadi.bsky.social, Andy Sumner (@andypsumner.bsky.social) writes about the Arthur Lewis workshop that took place at GDI at the end of 2024.
What is the Salience of Arthur Lewis’ Ideas for Understanding Global Inequality Today?
Read here: www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2172
What is the Salience of Arthur Lewis’ Ideas for Understanding Global Inequality Today?
Read here: www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2172
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These factories have a raw material which is called students and which they turn, at regular annual intervals, into graduates. Any disturbance in that production process is like a disturbance to a supply chain. It has to be eliminated as soon as possible..
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/05/2...
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/05/2...
Universities as factories
Branko Milanovic unpicks the motives of those cracking down on campus protests.
www.globalpolicyjournal.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
These factories have a raw material which is called students and which they turn, at regular annual intervals, into graduates. Any disturbance in that production process is like a disturbance to a supply chain. It has to be eliminated as soon as possible..
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/05/2...
www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/05/2...
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One of the deep-rooten reasons for the decline of the left is rich leftists' gratuitous attacks on growth which indeed provides sustenance, jobs and well-being for the majority of "ordinary" people.
George Monibot, "We have a Chancellor and. Prime Minister who seem to have no vision at all, except this thing called growth, GDP growth"
"GDP should not be used as a measure of national welfare" #BBCQT
"GDP should not be used as a measure of national welfare" #BBCQT
February 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
One of the deep-rooten reasons for the decline of the left is rich leftists' gratuitous attacks on growth which indeed provides sustenance, jobs and well-being for the majority of "ordinary" people.
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People like Monbiot who attack growth show the depth of the problems faced by the Left.
They cannot argue for nationalization of private capital b/c of Soviet experience. They cannot argue for higher taxes b/c they are deeply unpopular. Hence they attack an accounting concept: GDP.
They cannot argue for nationalization of private capital b/c of Soviet experience. They cannot argue for higher taxes b/c they are deeply unpopular. Hence they attack an accounting concept: GDP.
George Monibot, "We have a Chancellor and. Prime Minister who seem to have no vision at all, except this thing called growth, GDP growth"
"GDP should not be used as a measure of national welfare" #BBCQT
"GDP should not be used as a measure of national welfare" #BBCQT
February 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
People like Monbiot who attack growth show the depth of the problems faced by the Left.
They cannot argue for nationalization of private capital b/c of Soviet experience. They cannot argue for higher taxes b/c they are deeply unpopular. Hence they attack an accounting concept: GDP.
They cannot argue for nationalization of private capital b/c of Soviet experience. They cannot argue for higher taxes b/c they are deeply unpopular. Hence they attack an accounting concept: GDP.
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Neither Global South nor Global North or how the economic development community (incl. most progressive) has dismissed the fate of the small post-socialist #TransitionEconomies … remember them in the new year!
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
The overlooked: small open post-socialist economies in between the Global North and Global South
Do the small post-socialist economies have a place in the popular macroeconomic development discussions?
open.substack.com
December 31, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Neither Global South nor Global North or how the economic development community (incl. most progressive) has dismissed the fate of the small post-socialist #TransitionEconomies … remember them in the new year!
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
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While the super rich dodge taxes, public services are underfunded. Schools, hospitals, and climate action suffer—while private jets and yachts multiply.
February 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
While the super rich dodge taxes, public services are underfunded. Schools, hospitals, and climate action suffer—while private jets and yachts multiply.
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I just finished Janine Wedel's "Shadow Elite" & I would very highly recommend chapters on how top economists & their girlfriends stole money while pretending to help privatization in Russia and how the Iraq war was prepared by only a handful of individuals.
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I just finished Janine Wedel's "Shadow Elite" & I would very highly recommend chapters on how top economists & their girlfriends stole money while pretending to help privatization in Russia and how the Iraq war was prepared by only a handful of individuals.
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Western NGOs or funders have about 0 interest to acknowledge that they are creating an Orientalist elite with the funds they provide.
1, they do not see it--because the topics they think important are ipso facto proclaimed important for all even if in the Orientalist country nobody cares for them.
1, they do not see it--because the topics they think important are ipso facto proclaimed important for all even if in the Orientalist country nobody cares for them.
February 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Western NGOs or funders have about 0 interest to acknowledge that they are creating an Orientalist elite with the funds they provide.
1, they do not see it--because the topics they think important are ipso facto proclaimed important for all even if in the Orientalist country nobody cares for them.
1, they do not see it--because the topics they think important are ipso facto proclaimed important for all even if in the Orientalist country nobody cares for them.
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My latest on how not to respond to Trump's tariff threats www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
How Not to Respond to Trump’s Tariffs | by Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate
Dani Rodrik advises America’s trade partners not to embrace retaliation, because that would harm mainly themselves.
www.project-syndicate.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My latest on how not to respond to Trump's tariff threats www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
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A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points.
January 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A summary of my thinking on shared prosperity, work and AI in ten bullet points.