C.J. Polychroniou is a political scientist/political economist, author and journalist who has taught and worked in numerous universities and research centers in Europe and the United States. Currently, his main research interests are in U.S. politics and the political economy of the United States, European economic integration, globalization, climate change and environmental economics, and the deconstruction of neoliberalism’s politico-economic project.
Wealth taxes will barely slow inequality. So why do the super-rich resist them?
A two percent wealth tax is like shaving off a fraction of a spire from a large cathedral, says economist Nancy Folbre.
November 13, 2026
