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How long does it take to read Triumph of Injustice?

Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman

Triumph of Injustice by Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman takes about 4 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 15 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2019. 232 pages, about 63,800 words.

9 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 5 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 15 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 40 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"A searing examination of a key driver of American inequality-our tax system. Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice is a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation. Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, economists who revolutionized the study of inequality, demonstrate how the super-rich pay a lower tax rate than everybody else. In crystalline prose, they dissect the deliberate choices and the sins of indecision that have fueled this trend: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax-avoidance industry; and, most critically, tax competition between nations. It is not too late to change course. Instead of competition, we could choose cooperation, finding ways to create a tax regime that serves universal, democratic ends. The Triumph of Injustice offers a visionary and practical reinvention of taxes for that globalized world"--

Subjects: Rich people, Taxation, united states, Income distribution, united states, Equality, Finance, public, Taxation

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