Veille 2.1

Une centaine d’eurodéputés et plusieurs économistes, parmi lesquels Joseph Stiglitz, Aurore Lalucq et Gabriel Zucman, appellent, dans une tribune au « Monde », l’OCDE et l’ONU à instaurer un impôt international progressif sur l’extrême richesse.

En juillet, les pays du G20 ont adopté un impôt sur les multinationales d’au moins 15 %. Dans un entretien accordé à l’AFP, l’économiste Joseph Stiglitz a jugé ce pourcentage «trop bas», avançant plutôt celui de 25%.

Advocates of the Green New Deal say there is great urgency in dealing with the climate crisis and highlight the scale and scope of what is required to combat it. We can afford it, with the right fiscal policies and collective will. But more importantly, we must afford it. The climate emergency is our third world war. Our lives and civilization as we know it are at stake, just as they were in the second world war.

What kind of economic system is most conducive to human wellbeing? That question has come to define the current era, because, after 40 years of neoliberalism in the United States and other advanced economies, we know what doesn’t work.