The Unexpected Virtue of Doubting
On information oversaturation, the logic of immediacy, and why forming an opinion takes time.
Writing & media
Blog posts, commentary and coverage of my research for a general audience, in English and Spanish.
Democracy Challenged blog
Posts on the blog of the ERC-funded Democracy Challenged project.
Winners Take All: How Corporate Tax Cuts Weakened the Anchor of the Top 0.001%
How falling corporate income tax rates weakened a historical constraint on the accumulation of extreme wealth.
Related paper: Winner-Takes-All: Corporate Tax Avoidance, Market Power, and Wealth Concentration in Advanced Capitalist Democracies
Winner Takes All: How Corporate Tax Policy is Manufacturing Billionaire Wealth
with Aidan Regan
Profit concentration among the largest US corporations and its link to billionaire wealth.
Related paper: Winner-Takes-All: Corporate Tax Avoidance, Market Power, and Wealth Concentration in Advanced Capitalist Democracies
From Creative Destruction to Winner Takes All – A Commentary on the Nobel Prize and the Role of the State in Innovation
with Linus Zechlin
From Schumpeterian creative destruction to the absorption of innovation by dominant firms.
Profits, Taxes and the Accumulation of Billionaire Wealth
with Aidan Regan
Corporate profits, declining effective tax rates and the growth of billionaire fortunes since the 1990s.
Related paper: Profit Taxes and the Accumulation of Billionaire Wealth
From Brave New World to Apple vs. Brussels: How Media Fragmentation Shapes Our Reality
with Lakshmi Menon and Aidan Regan
How news coverage in six countries turned the Apple €13 billion tax ruling into divergent narratives.
Commentary
Opinion pieces and essays in the press.
Research coverage
Articles, summaries and interviews about my research.
How much does knowing where their money comes from affect what we think about the top 1%?
with Emmanuel Chávez
Related paper: Capital vs. labour: The effect of income sources on attitudes toward the top 1 percent
Political Cleavages in Latin America
with Ana Leiva, Clara Martínez-Toledano and Álvaro Zúñiga-Cordero
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