The war between taxis and chauffeur-driven private cars: everyone has their reasons
By Guillaume Allègre Editor’s note: This post was first published on the OFCE blog on 21 October 2013, when the issue of car with driver […]
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How can a basic income be defended?
By Guillaume Allègre Following the submission of 125,000 signatures collected by organizations supporting the introduction of a basic income, Swiss citizens will vote in a […]
Towards a major fiscal reform – at last!
By Guillaume Allègre, @g_allegre At the start of the week, Jean-Marc Ayrault announced an overhaul of the French tax system that would involve, among other […]
How can one defend the 1%?
By Guillaume Allègre In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives[1], Harvard Professor and bestselling textbook author Greg Mankiw defends the income earned […]
Reforming the conjugal quotient
By Guillaume Allègre and Hélène Périvier As part of a review of family benefit programmes (the motivations for which are in any case debatable), the […]
France, Germany: The nonworking poor
By Guillaume Allègre “The ways of thinking society, managing it and quantifying it are indissolubly linked” Alain Desrosières, 1940-2013 The subject of working poverty emerged […]
Superstars and fairness: Let the sky fall
By Guillaume Allègre Are actors overpaid? A column by Vincent Maraval has launched a debate that is in essence ideological … in a good way. Indeed, […]
Pigeons: how to tax entrepreneurial income? (2/2)
By Guillaume Allègre and Xavier Timbeau After having proposed in the 2013 Budget Bill to tax gains from the sale of securities at the progressive […]
Pigeons: how to tax capital gains (1/2)
By Guillaume Allègre and Xavier Timbeau After having proposed in the 2013 Budget Bill to tax gains from the sale of securities at the progressive […]
Financing higher education: Should students have to pay?
By Guillaume Allègre and Xavier Timbeau Is it necessary to ensure that a greater portion of the cost of higher education is borne by students […]