OPINION

How world's super-rich are rewriting the rules

Oped, Joseph E Stiglitz & Jayati Ghosh, Published on 13/02/2026

» Ongoing efforts to derail multilateral tax cooperation lie at the heart of a global programme to replace democratic governance with coercive rule by the extremely wealthy -- or what we call 21st-century Caesarism. Any strategy to counter this programme, therefore, must recognise that taxing extreme wealth is essential to saving democracy.