ICRICT
@icrict.bsky.social
International Capital Tax Commission (ICRICT). Chaired by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and @jayatighosh.bsky.social
Join our Co-Chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social at "Remaking the #UN," convened by @fordfoundation.bsky.social and @projectsyndicate.bsky.social during #UNGA High-Level Week.
🗓️21 Sept.
⏰ 4 PM EDT
📍NYC & Online
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🗓️21 Sept.
⏰ 4 PM EDT
📍NYC & Online
Register here 🔗 shorturl.at/07OMJ
September 18, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Join our Co-Chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social at "Remaking the #UN," convened by @fordfoundation.bsky.social and @projectsyndicate.bsky.social during #UNGA High-Level Week.
🗓️21 Sept.
⏰ 4 PM EDT
📍NYC & Online
Register here 🔗 shorturl.at/07OMJ
🗓️21 Sept.
⏰ 4 PM EDT
📍NYC & Online
Register here 🔗 shorturl.at/07OMJ
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So pleased and delighted that @nature.com ran our opinion piece on creating an International Panel on Inequality. The statistics are stark. The need extremely clear. The consequences, immense.
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September 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
So pleased and delighted that @nature.com ran our opinion piece on creating an International Panel on Inequality. The statistics are stark. The need extremely clear. The consequences, immense.
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It was such a pleasure, as always, to work with the Financial Times on my Weekend Essay on AI and the economy. www.ft.com/content/49c0...
Joseph Stiglitz’s ‘progressive AI agenda’ for the economy
A slow rollout will disappoint investors. A fast one risks undermining the industry’s own foundations. But managed carefully, this technology could benefit us all
www.ft.com
September 14, 2026 at 4:05 PM
It was such a pleasure, as always, to work with the Financial Times on my Weekend Essay on AI and the economy. www.ft.com/content/49c0...
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When you see the statistics, and which direction they are headed, the need for an International Panel on Inequality is clear.
📢 "Inequality is a policy choice, and its extremes can be reversed"
Larry Kramer and @josephestiglitz.bsky.social call on Andy Burnham to back an International Panel on Inequality—a proposal supported by leading academics from the III and beyond.
Read their article in @prospectmagazine.co.uk ⬇️
Larry Kramer and @josephestiglitz.bsky.social call on Andy Burnham to back an International Panel on Inequality—a proposal supported by leading academics from the III and beyond.
Read their article in @prospectmagazine.co.uk ⬇️
Why Andy Burnham must back an International Panel on Inequality
Inequality is a policy choice, and its extremes can be reversed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 14, 2026 at 4:07 PM
When you see the statistics, and which direction they are headed, the need for an International Panel on Inequality is clear.
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Thank you @nature.com for your editorial supporting an International Panel on Inequality.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Global inequality panel is a chance for research to change lives
The scientific panel is welcomed. It must now invite all interested researchers to participate.
www.nature.com
September 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Thank you @nature.com for your editorial supporting an International Panel on Inequality.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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So pleased @theguardian.com covered the academics letter calling for an International Panel on Inequality. 1,500+ experts in 100+ countries, including @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, @jayatighosh.bsky.social, @mariannedhe.bsky.social, @dacemoglumit.bsky.social & so many more
tinyurl.com/3y4ry4as
tinyurl.com/3y4ry4as
Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’
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September 18, 2026 at 3:05 PM
So pleased @theguardian.com covered the academics letter calling for an International Panel on Inequality. 1,500+ experts in 100+ countries, including @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, @jayatighosh.bsky.social, @mariannedhe.bsky.social, @dacemoglumit.bsky.social & so many more
tinyurl.com/3y4ry4as
tinyurl.com/3y4ry4as
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Before the UN general assembly next week, I joined 1,500+ academics from 100+countries in calling on global leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC, as recommended by the G20 Committe on Inequality led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social last year.
Please share.
Please share.
Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Before the UN general assembly next week, I joined 1,500+ academics from 100+countries in calling on global leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC, as recommended by the G20 Committe on Inequality led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social last year.
Please share.
Please share.
Who benefits from AI, a few tech giants, or all of us?
ICRICT Co-Chair @josephestiglitz.bsky.social lays out a "progressive AI agenda" in the @financialtimes.com: competition policy, real regulation, and taxing those profiting from the boom to fund what societies really value.
shorturl.at/iKorY
ICRICT Co-Chair @josephestiglitz.bsky.social lays out a "progressive AI agenda" in the @financialtimes.com: competition policy, real regulation, and taxing those profiting from the boom to fund what societies really value.
shorturl.at/iKorY
September 14, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Who benefits from AI, a few tech giants, or all of us?
ICRICT Co-Chair @josephestiglitz.bsky.social lays out a "progressive AI agenda" in the @financialtimes.com: competition policy, real regulation, and taxing those profiting from the boom to fund what societies really value.
shorturl.at/iKorY
ICRICT Co-Chair @josephestiglitz.bsky.social lays out a "progressive AI agenda" in the @financialtimes.com: competition policy, real regulation, and taxing those profiting from the boom to fund what societies really value.
shorturl.at/iKorY
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My wife Anya Schiffrin's paper looks at NYC influencers "There is a Signal group which the Mayor’s office uses to communicate with a hand-picked group of influencers. ... [&] pilot programs aimed at using influencers on Instagram and TikTok to promote city services"
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September 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
My wife Anya Schiffrin's paper looks at NYC influencers "There is a Signal group which the Mayor’s office uses to communicate with a hand-picked group of influencers. ... [&] pilot programs aimed at using influencers on Instagram and TikTok to promote city services"
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My wife @anyanyc.bsky.social's working paper, posted on @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, about social media and the NYC Mayor's Office has been getting some notice. She looks at influencers communicating info about NYC programs and policies.
tinyurl.com/bac65rw3
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Mapping New York City influencers and funding of public messaging – Initiative for Policy Dialogue
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September 4, 2026 at 5:42 PM
My wife @anyanyc.bsky.social's working paper, posted on @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social, about social media and the NYC Mayor's Office has been getting some notice. She looks at influencers communicating info about NYC programs and policies.
tinyurl.com/bac65rw3
tinyurl.com/bac65rw3
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Appreciate TIME publishing my piece on the importance of public grocery stores time.com/article/2026...
The Economics of Public Grocery Stores
Public grocery stores “hold out the promise of a healthier population and a more productive labor force,” writes Joseph E. Stiglitz.
time.com
August 31, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Appreciate TIME publishing my piece on the importance of public grocery stores time.com/article/2026...
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Thank you to Amherst College for letting me write about my longtime friend and cherished colleague Ned Phelps. I miss him deeply. www.amherst.edu/news/news_re...
Edmund Phelps ’55: He Wanted to Make Capitalism Work Better | 2026 | Edmund Phelps ’55: He Wanted to Make Capitalism Work Better | Amherst College
www.amherst.edu
August 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Thank you to Amherst College for letting me write about my longtime friend and cherished colleague Ned Phelps. I miss him deeply. www.amherst.edu/news/news_re...
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We are grateful to Heather Stewart of @theguardian.com for covering our open letter to PM Andy Burnham, urging him to sign up the UK to support the creation of a much-needed International Panel on Inequality
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Top economists urge Burnham to sign UK up to UN initiative on global inequality
Open letter signed by 40 academics including Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz and Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2026 at 2:47 PM
We are grateful to Heather Stewart of @theguardian.com for covering our open letter to PM Andy Burnham, urging him to sign up the UK to support the creation of a much-needed International Panel on Inequality
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
“La desigualdad es un problema enorme y definitorio para la humanidad.”
Hay que gravar la riqueza para construir sociedades más estables y afrontar los desequilibrios de la tecnología, defiende @martinguzman.bsky.social en @elpais.com.
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Hay que gravar la riqueza para construir sociedades más estables y afrontar los desequilibrios de la tecnología, defiende @martinguzman.bsky.social en @elpais.com.
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August 24, 2026 at 2:54 PM
“La desigualdad es un problema enorme y definitorio para la humanidad.”
Hay que gravar la riqueza para construir sociedades más estables y afrontar los desequilibrios de la tecnología, defiende @martinguzman.bsky.social en @elpais.com.
🔗 shorturl.at/dsWXF
Hay que gravar la riqueza para construir sociedades más estables y afrontar los desequilibrios de la tecnología, defiende @martinguzman.bsky.social en @elpais.com.
🔗 shorturl.at/dsWXF
$500 billion more in corporate tax a year.
That's what governments would collect by taxing multinationals where they actually operate, not where they declare their profits.
#ICRICT Co-Chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social on @news.abc.net.au 🎧
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#UNTaxConvention
That's what governments would collect by taxing multinationals where they actually operate, not where they declare their profits.
#ICRICT Co-Chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social on @news.abc.net.au 🎧
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#UNTaxConvention
August 17, 2026 at 2:25 PM
$500 billion more in corporate tax a year.
That's what governments would collect by taxing multinationals where they actually operate, not where they declare their profits.
#ICRICT Co-Chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social on @news.abc.net.au 🎧
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#UNTaxConvention
That's what governments would collect by taxing multinationals where they actually operate, not where they declare their profits.
#ICRICT Co-Chair @jayatighosh.bsky.social on @news.abc.net.au 🎧
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#UNTaxConvention
Le futur des règles fiscales mondiales se négocie maintenant à l’ONU.
🌍 @leoncendikumana.bsky.social a commissaire de l’ICRICT, écrit dans Financial Afrik sur l’enjeu de ces négociations pour l’Afrique, qui perd 97 milliards de dollars à cause de la fuite des capitaux.
shorturl.at/VX8h5
🌍 @leoncendikumana.bsky.social a commissaire de l’ICRICT, écrit dans Financial Afrik sur l’enjeu de ces négociations pour l’Afrique, qui perd 97 milliards de dollars à cause de la fuite des capitaux.
shorturl.at/VX8h5
August 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Le futur des règles fiscales mondiales se négocie maintenant à l’ONU.
🌍 @leoncendikumana.bsky.social a commissaire de l’ICRICT, écrit dans Financial Afrik sur l’enjeu de ces négociations pour l’Afrique, qui perd 97 milliards de dollars à cause de la fuite des capitaux.
shorturl.at/VX8h5
🌍 @leoncendikumana.bsky.social a commissaire de l’ICRICT, écrit dans Financial Afrik sur l’enjeu de ces négociations pour l’Afrique, qui perd 97 milliards de dollars à cause de la fuite des capitaux.
shorturl.at/VX8h5
El futuro de las reglas fiscales globales se negocia ahora en la ONU.
🇦🇷 Jose Antonio Ocampo, comisionado de #ICRICT, escribe en Clarín sobre por qué Argentina debe estar en la mesa y defender sus intereses.
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🇦🇷 Jose Antonio Ocampo, comisionado de #ICRICT, escribe en Clarín sobre por qué Argentina debe estar en la mesa y defender sus intereses.
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August 11, 2026 at 12:50 PM
El futuro de las reglas fiscales globales se negocia ahora en la ONU.
🇦🇷 Jose Antonio Ocampo, comisionado de #ICRICT, escribe en Clarín sobre por qué Argentina debe estar en la mesa y defender sus intereses.
🔗 shorturl.at/JRIB9
🇦🇷 Jose Antonio Ocampo, comisionado de #ICRICT, escribe en Clarín sobre por qué Argentina debe estar en la mesa y defender sus intereses.
🔗 shorturl.at/JRIB9
L'UN est le dernier recours de l'Afrique contre le pillage fiscal, écrit @leoncendikumana.bsky.social dans Le 360 Afrique
Cette semaine, les négociations sur la #UNTaxConvention à New York sont une chance historique pour les droits fiscaux du continent.
🔗 shorturl.at/fUkQb
Cette semaine, les négociations sur la #UNTaxConvention à New York sont une chance historique pour les droits fiscaux du continent.
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August 6, 2026 at 12:05 PM
L'UN est le dernier recours de l'Afrique contre le pillage fiscal, écrit @leoncendikumana.bsky.social dans Le 360 Afrique
Cette semaine, les négociations sur la #UNTaxConvention à New York sont une chance historique pour les droits fiscaux du continent.
🔗 shorturl.at/fUkQb
Cette semaine, les négociations sur la #UNTaxConvention à New York sont une chance historique pour les droits fiscaux du continent.
🔗 shorturl.at/fUkQb
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Thank you to @jonathansperling.bsky.social for his well-written article in @columbiabusiness.bsky.social's Insights about NYC Mayor Mamdani's plan for city grocery stores. My colleague Professor Lori Yue was also interviewed.
business.columbia.edu/insights/mam...
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‘The market failures in the provision of food should not be a partisan matter’: Columbia Business School experts on the NYC-owned grocery store experiment | Columbia Business School
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says municipal grocery stores will lower the price of essential foods. CBS experts explain what the plan could fix and how the city should measure success.
business.columbia.edu
August 5, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Thank you to @jonathansperling.bsky.social for his well-written article in @columbiabusiness.bsky.social's Insights about NYC Mayor Mamdani's plan for city grocery stores. My colleague Professor Lori Yue was also interviewed.
business.columbia.edu/insights/mam...
business.columbia.edu/insights/mam...
En un contexto de desaceleración económica, Chile no puede llegar tarde a las negociaciones fiscales de ONU escribe Jose Antonio Ocampo (ICRICT) en @latercera.com .
Participar en este proceso es clave para defender los intereses fiscales del país.
🔗 shorturl.at/AEgiK
Participar en este proceso es clave para defender los intereses fiscales del país.
🔗 shorturl.at/AEgiK
August 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
En un contexto de desaceleración económica, Chile no puede llegar tarde a las negociaciones fiscales de ONU escribe Jose Antonio Ocampo (ICRICT) en @latercera.com .
Participar en este proceso es clave para defender los intereses fiscales del país.
🔗 shorturl.at/AEgiK
Participar en este proceso es clave para defender los intereses fiscales del país.
🔗 shorturl.at/AEgiK
While families struggle with sky-high energy bills and devastating heatwaves worsen the climate crisis, 8 oil giants pocketed billions from the war against Iran.
Windfall gains from geopolitical shocks, undeserved and unjust.
We called for windfall profit taxes in April:
Here 🔗 shorturl.at/SVAc7
Windfall gains from geopolitical shocks, undeserved and unjust.
We called for windfall profit taxes in April:
Here 🔗 shorturl.at/SVAc7
August 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM
While families struggle with sky-high energy bills and devastating heatwaves worsen the climate crisis, 8 oil giants pocketed billions from the war against Iran.
Windfall gains from geopolitical shocks, undeserved and unjust.
We called for windfall profit taxes in April:
Here 🔗 shorturl.at/SVAc7
Windfall gains from geopolitical shocks, undeserved and unjust.
We called for windfall profit taxes in April:
Here 🔗 shorturl.at/SVAc7
ICRICT Commissioner @leoncendikumana.bsky.social writes in Business Day that Africa should seize the opportunity to secure fairer global tax rules through the UN tax negotiations
A stronger UN tax convention can curb illicit financial flows and help countries invest in development
shorturl.at/Radua
A stronger UN tax convention can curb illicit financial flows and help countries invest in development
shorturl.at/Radua
August 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
ICRICT Commissioner @leoncendikumana.bsky.social writes in Business Day that Africa should seize the opportunity to secure fairer global tax rules through the UN tax negotiations
A stronger UN tax convention can curb illicit financial flows and help countries invest in development
shorturl.at/Radua
A stronger UN tax convention can curb illicit financial flows and help countries invest in development
shorturl.at/Radua
$500 billion extra revenues every year.
That's what countries would collect by taxing MNEs where they actually operate, according to @psiglobalunion.bsky.social / @taxjustice.net report.
A #UNTaxConvention can make it happen.
#ICRICT @jayatighosh.bsky.social in Projet Syndicate.
🔗 shorturl.at/5A92g
That's what countries would collect by taxing MNEs where they actually operate, according to @psiglobalunion.bsky.social / @taxjustice.net report.
A #UNTaxConvention can make it happen.
#ICRICT @jayatighosh.bsky.social in Projet Syndicate.
🔗 shorturl.at/5A92g
August 4, 2026 at 1:24 PM
$500 billion extra revenues every year.
That's what countries would collect by taxing MNEs where they actually operate, according to @psiglobalunion.bsky.social / @taxjustice.net report.
A #UNTaxConvention can make it happen.
#ICRICT @jayatighosh.bsky.social in Projet Syndicate.
🔗 shorturl.at/5A92g
That's what countries would collect by taxing MNEs where they actually operate, according to @psiglobalunion.bsky.social / @taxjustice.net report.
A #UNTaxConvention can make it happen.
#ICRICT @jayatighosh.bsky.social in Projet Syndicate.
🔗 shorturl.at/5A92g
Nuestro comisionado José Antonio Ocampo escribe en @elpais.com que las negociaciones de @un.org sobre cooperación tributaria internacional son una oportunidad histórica para garantizar que las multinacionales y los superricos tributen allí donde generan valor.
Aquí⬇️
elpais.com/economia/neg...
Aquí⬇️
elpais.com/economia/neg...
August 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Nuestro comisionado José Antonio Ocampo escribe en @elpais.com que las negociaciones de @un.org sobre cooperación tributaria internacional son una oportunidad histórica para garantizar que las multinacionales y los superricos tributen allí donde generan valor.
Aquí⬇️
elpais.com/economia/neg...
Aquí⬇️
elpais.com/economia/neg...
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"By restoring the link between where profits are made and where they are taxed, the #UNtaxConvention advances a modern form of taxation with representation and carries forward one of democracy’s oldest principle."
- @icrict.bsky.social Co-Chair Jayati Ghosh
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...
- @icrict.bsky.social Co-Chair Jayati Ghosh
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...
The Case for a Pay-Where-You-Play Tax System
Jayati Ghosh urges global policymakers to back a groundbreaking UN tax treaty that would end profit shifting.
www.project-syndicate.org
August 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
"By restoring the link between where profits are made and where they are taxed, the #UNtaxConvention advances a modern form of taxation with representation and carries forward one of democracy’s oldest principle."
- @icrict.bsky.social Co-Chair Jayati Ghosh
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...
- @icrict.bsky.social Co-Chair Jayati Ghosh
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u...