Sociologist and Stone Center Postdoc at MIT studying elite kinship networks. Incoming AP at Berkeley Sociology starting January 2027 (she/her)
Shay O’Brien
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Documenting the wealth of California’s billionaires and the taxes they pay, and presenting revenue estimates for the California billionaire tax proposal, from Jasper Boll, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman www.nber.org/papers/w35218
At its core, the political economy of scholarship was never supposed to rely on ~$50k from a smelting fortune. Institutions have hollowed out their support, the feds have done the same, and all that's left is inadequate private funding.
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power.
We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
