Un article qui indique qu’à l’occasion de la sixième rencontre des lauréat·e·s du prix Nobel des discussions ont porté sur le revenu de base universel.
Trois lauréats du prix de la Banque de Suède en sciences économiques en mémoire d’Alfred Nobel se sont déclarés favorables au dispositif : Sir Christopher Pissarides, Daniel McFadden et Peter Diamond. La finalité et les modalités de la mesure restent pour eux à débattre, mais ils semblent enclins à taxer plus fortement les hauts revenus et à faire passer une part de la pression fiscale du travail au capital :
Both Sir Chris Pissarides and Professor Diamond advocate higher taxes on high earnings. They also recommend wealth taxes, though they disagree about how these should work: Professor Diamond is strongly in favor of a well-functioning estate tax, while Sir Chris prefers capital gains taxes on property transactions, including family houses. Perhaps the strongest endorsement of wealth taxes came not come from these economists, however, but from their fellow Nobel memorial prize winner, James Heckman. Speaking on the inequality panel, Professor Heckman noted that the falling cost of capital was driving down wages. To correct this, he advocated shifting the burden of taxation to capital rather than labor.
— Frances Coppola
Source : Top Economists Endorse Universal Basic Income, Frances Coppola.
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