Social Sciences (Faculty & Staff)

BERKELEY, CA — Wealth inequality exceeds historic records in the United States, as can be clearly seen in the research done by Gabriel Zucman, Associate Professor of Economics at the UC Berkeley Department of Economics and Faculty Director of The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at UC Berkeley. Thanks to a new gift of $4.85 million to the Stone Center, Zucman and co-directors Professor Emmanuel Saez and Professor Hilary Hoynes will lead an...

The Atlantic explores how Stone Center co-directors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman's pioneering inequality research sparked an intense academic controversy—and why their work continues to transform politics and policy.

The article positions Stone Center co-directors as the pioneering economists whose work "transformed domestic politics" and convinced President Obama that inequality was "the defining issue of our time." When rival researchers challenged their findings, Saez and Zucman didn't just defend their methodology—they advanced it, with Zucman's latest research revealing...

In this Berkeley Talks episode, economist Gabriel Zucman discusses how wealth inequality and billionaire wealth has soared in recent decades, prompting the need for a global minimum tax of 2% on billionaires.

“The key benefit of a global minimum tax on billionaires is not only that it would generate substantial revenue for governments worldwide — about $250 billion a year — but also, and maybe most importantly, that it would restore a sense of fairness,” says Zucman, a...

Christine Philliou is currently the Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and is a Professor in the Department of History. Professor Philliou specializes in the region of the Balkans and the Middle East, specifically focused on the emergence of the Greek and Turkish nation-states. She has published Biography of Empire...