350 economists call for a financial transaction tax
February 15th, 2010 by Robin Hood
Posted in: Debate & analysis, In the news and on the web
This is the complete text of a letter calling for a financial transaction tax. It is signed by 350 economists from dozens of countries, including two Nobel laureates. The letter was discussed by Sean O’Grady in today’s Independent Newspaper.
Dear G20
As economists from across the world, we call on you to implement a financial transaction tax (FTT).
This tax is an idea that has come of age. The financial crisis has shown us the dangers of unregulated finance, and the link between the financial sector and society has been broken. It is time to fix this link and for the financial sector to give something back to society.
Even at very low rates of 0.05% or less, this tax could raise hundreds of billions of dollars annually and calm excessive speculation. The UK already levies a tax on sharetransactions of 0.5%, or ten times this rate, without unduly impacting on the competitiveness of the City of London.
This money is urgently needed. The crises of poverty and of climate change require an historic transfer of billions of dollars from the rich world to the poor world, and this tax would offer a clear way to help fund this.
Given the automation of payments, this tax is technically feasible. It is morally right. We call on you to implement it as a matter of urgency.
Yours.
Researcher at CEDLAS-UNLP and CONICET, Argentina
Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Buenos Aires
Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales,
Professor of Economics, University of Queensland
Australian Research Council Federation Fellow
Overseas Consultant, Social Computing Group, Imperial College London
Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics
Professor of Economics, Kepler University
Board Director European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
PhD, University of Vienna (Mag.oec.)
Associate Professor Vienna University of Economics
Senior research assistant and former director of research, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
Professor of Economics, University of Vienna
Senior Research Fellow, Vienna Institute for Economic Research
Head of Monetary Unit, Economic Analysis Division, Austrian National Bank
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Professor of Gender and Public Policy, University of West Indies
University of Antwerp
Former Official of the European Commission
Economist at University of Campinas
Brazilian Economist
Department of Economics, Federal University of Parana
Department of Economics, Brandon University, Manitoba
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of New Brunswick
Professor, Department of EconomicsUniversity of Manitoba
President, Atlantic Canada Economics association
Professor of Economics and Social Science (emeritus), York University, Toronto
Chairman of the Association of Heterodox Economists, University of Manitoba
Professor of Economics, York University, Toronto
Professor, retired, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
Economics Faculty, University of New Brunswick Saint John
Chief Economist, Canadian Labour Congress , Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives; School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University
Senior Economist, Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario
Honorary Professor and Research Associate, co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project, former Assistant Secretary General of the UN
Ex-president, Atlantic Canada Economics Association, Canada
Professor of Economics, York University
Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba, Canada
Professor and Chair, Economics Department, Saint Mary’s University
Professor of Economics, St. Thomas University
Economics Faculty, University of New Brunswick Saint John
Professor of Economics, University of New Brunswick
Principal Researcher, Finance and Growth, North South Institute, Ottawa
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba
Department of International Development Studies, Trent University
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Toronto
Economist based in Chile
Professor of Economics, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, Bejing
Associate Professor of Economics, Technical University of Denmark
FLACSO University Quito (former President of the Constitutional Assembly)
University Teacher in Economics, FLACSO
Asociación de Bancos Privados del Ecuador
FLACSO University Quito (former Finance Vice-Minister)
PhD economy program coordinator, FLACSO, Ecuador.
University teacher economics, Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí
Economics Department, Abo Akademi University
Founder, Planet Finance
Ecole Polytechnique
Dauphine University of Paris, Director of the CGEMP
Paris School of Economics
Professor of Economics at The Dauphine University of Paris, Director of the ‘Cercle des Economistes’
Special Advisor for International AffairsFrench Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS)
CNRS Centre of Economics Paris
Economics Lecturer, SOAS and University of Paris-10 and Institute of Political Sciences, Paris
Director, Public policy Unit, Paris School of Economics
University of Paris 1
Emeritus Professor of Economics. University of Paris X
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin School of Economics and Law
Professor of Economics, Bielefeld University
Professor of Economics, University of Hamburg
Professor and Chair of International Political Theory and Philosophy, Goethe University
Prof of Economics, Berlin School of Economics and Law
University of Goettingen
Prof of Economics, University of Göttingen
University of Duisburg-Essen
Executive Director, Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America
Professor of Economics, University of Hamburg
Senior Economist, Macroeconomic Policy Institue at Hans-Boeckler Foundation
Freie Universität Berlin
Nicos Poulantzas Institue
Centre for Economic Studies & Planning Jawaharlal Nehru University
Principal Economist, International Development Economics Associates Secretariat, New Delhi
Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityNew Delhi,
Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Professor, Economics Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Sukhamoy Chakravarty Chair in Planning and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Prof at India Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Economic Researcher, University of Delhi
Department of Economics, National University of Ireland Galway
Economic and Social History, Tel-Aviv University
Professor of Economics, University of Verona
Professor at University of Rome, La Sapienza
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Siena
Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Associate Prof of Political Economy, University of Milan
Professor at University of Rome, La Sapienza
Economics Professor, University of Siena, Italy
Prof of Economics St Anna School of Advanced Studies
Professor of International Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
Department of Political Economy, University of Rome
Senior Researcher
Associate Professor of International Political Economy,University of Naples
Professor of Economics, University of Salento (Lecce) Italy
Professor of Economics, Department of Political Economy
Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Professor of Economics, University of Siena
Prof of Political Economy, University of Bologna
Seinan Gakuin University
Ritsumeikan University
Nagoya University
Professor Yokohoma City University
Associate Professor of Economics, Kyoto University
Professor of Economics, Waseda University
Associate Professor, International College of Arts and Sciences, Yokohama City University
Senior Migration Specialist, ILO Regional Office for Arab States
Former Chair and Professor, Economics Department, American University of Beirut
Science, Technology and Development Programme
Emeritus Professor in Economics, National Autonmous University of Mexico
Professor of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Director of Doctoral Program on Development Stuides, Autonmous University of Zacatecas, Mexico
Graduate School of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Institute of Economic Research, Mexico
Professor Center for Economic Studies, El Colegio de Mexico
Professor of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico
General Secretary of Rawabit Association, Morocco and Tax Researcher
Senior Lecturer above the bar of Economics, Auckland University of Technology
Economics Department, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Head of Demography Centre, Institute of Statistics and Demography
Professor of economics and humanities, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Emeritus Professor of International Economic Relations, University of Silesia, Poland
Professor of Economics, Institue of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Professor of Economics, Poland
Professor of social policy, Institute of Social Policy, Warsaw University
Professor of Economics, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland
ISEG, Lisbon
Professor of Economics, University of Algarve
Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra
Faculty of Economics, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
South African Research Chair in Applied Poverty Reduction, School of Development Studies, Durban
Professor of Health Economics, Department of Public Health, University of Cape Town
Senior Professor and Head of School Development Studies
School of Development Studies
University teacher in economics; Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Professor of Applied Economics, Director of Complutense Foreign Studies InstituteComplutense University Of Madrid
Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
Department of Economics, University of Barcelona
Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Professor of Applied Economy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Complutense University, Madrid
Professor of Applied Economy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
CEU San Pablo University, Madrid
Department of Economics and Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona
University teacher economics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
University teacher economics, Universidad rey Juan Carlos, Madrid
Professor of Economic History, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Associate Professor, Dept of Economic History, Stockholm University
Associate Professor of Economics, Independent Researcher
Department of Sociology, Gothenburg University
Associate Professor of Development Economics, Stockholm
Director, Friedrich Ebert Foundation Stockholm for the Nordic Countries
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Mälardalen University
Chairman Chula Global NetworkChulalongkorn University
Fellow, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Em. Professor of the University of Amsterdam
Economist, Delft University of Technology
Economics, Delft University of Technology
Professor of Employment and Development Economics, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Associate Professor of Feminist Development Economics, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Department of Economics, Ateneo De Manila University
Assistant Professor, Economics, Istanbul Technical University
International Labour Organisation, Geneva
Associate Professor, Econmics, FEAS Akdeniz University Antalya
Professor of Economics, Yeditepe University
Professor, Business Faculty, Istanbul Technical University
Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Economics, Akdeniz University, Turkey
Professor of Economics, Bilkent University
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford, visiting Professor, Harvard University
Lecturer in Economics, Queen Mary University of London
Professor of Economics, Cambridge University
Reader in International Financial Law, Manchester University
Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Cambridge
Economic Consultant
Professor in Economics, University of Sheffield
Research Associate, Institute of Development Studies
Reader of Economics, University of Cambridge
Director of Tax Justic Network International Secretariat, London
Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
Professor of the Political Economy of Development, SOAS
Lecturer in Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University
Professor Emeritus in Economics, University of Stirling
Professor of Economics, Imperial College Business School, London
Professor of Economics, University of West England
Senior Fellow, University of East Anglia
University of Essex
Senior Lecturer in Banking, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Professor of Economics, University of Exeter
Postgraduate Research Director, University of Reading, UK
Professorial Research Fellow, LSE and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath
Human Resources Management, Middlesex University
Professor of Economics, University of Kent
Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, University of Cambridge
Professor of Development Economics, Oxford University
Professor of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University
University of Hertfordshire
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra
Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics, Director Centre for International Business Studies, London South Bank University
Professor of Economics, University of London, SOAS
UN/DESA Senior Economic Affairs Officer & Research Associate at University of Cambridge
Professor School of International Development, University of East Anglia
Dept of Economics, University of London, SOAS
Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Democracy and formerly Lecturer in Economics
Economic consultant
Professor of Economics University of Warwick
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Prof of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University
Professor of Economic Geography, Cambridge-MIT Institute Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Lecturer in Economics, University of Sheffield
Acting Head of Department of Economics, Glasgow Caledonian University
Research Coordinator, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia
Research Fellow, Institute of Developmemt Studies
Prof of Economics and Management of Innovation, University of Manchester
School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London
Director, Tax Research UK
Fellow, Young Foundation
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Ashcroft International Business School
Professor of Institutional Economics, Birkbeck, University of London
Professor of Economics, University of London, SOAS
Senior Lecturer in Socio-Economic Research, University of Manchester
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University
Founding Political Director of the European Policy Centre, Visiting Practitioner Fellow at the European Institute – University of Sussex
Head of Economics Department, University of Glasgow
Senior Lecturer in Economics, DeMontfort University
D.Phi Oxon
Professor of Economics, University College London
Director, Landman Economics
Deputy Director of Human Resources, University of Manchester
Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University
Professor of Economics, Leeds University
Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
Research Fellow in Economics, University of Oxford
Retired UN
Centre for Global Accountability, Essex Business School, University of Essex
Senior Lecturer in Econmics, Open University
Senior Lecturer of Economics, Oxford Brookes University
Professor of Econometric Theory and Economic Statistics, University of Cambridge
Professor of Development Economics, Oxford University
Research Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
Director of Studies in Economics, University of Cambridge
Lecturer of Economics, University of Oxford
Senior Research Associate and Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University
Director EFA Global Monitoring Report UNESCO
Professor Emeritus, University of London
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Kingston University
Professor of Economics, University of Lancashire
Professor of Economics, Oxford University
Department of Economics, University of Leicester
Prof of Political Economy, Massachusetts Institue of Technology
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts
Director of Budget and Policy Analysis, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability
Co-director, Centre for Economic and Policy Research, Washington D.C.
Lecturer in Economics, Hamilton College
Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Professor of Economics, American University
Professor of Economics, University of Utah
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Professor, International Development Program, American University
Professor of Economics, University of California
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts
Director of Institute for Policy Studies, Washington
Dept. of Economics, City University of New York
President and CEO, The North-South Institute
Assistant Professor of Economics, Western New England College
Research Associate, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Professor of Food and Resource Economics, Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Co-Director, MA Degree in Global Finance, Trade and Economic Integration, University of Denver
Department of Economics and Policy Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Prof of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Department of International Relations, Boston
Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institue, Tufts University
Professor of Economics, Rittenhouse Polytechnic Institute, New York
Professor of International Economics and Co-Director, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
Director, Women’s Studies Program, Colgate University
Financial Markets Program Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University
Economist in Residence, College of Arts and Sciences, American University
President at Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington DC
Prof of Milano New School for Management and Urban Policy
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Dickinson College
Department of Economics, State University of New Paltz
Department of Economics, California State University, LA
Senior Research Analyst, Service Employees International Union, Washington DC
Emeritus Professor in Economics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
University of Michigan
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Denver
Assistant Professor of Economics, Central College, USA
Prof of Economics Columbia University
Department of Economics and Critical Cultural Studies, Holyoke Community College
Assistant Professor of Economics, Siena College
Schwartz Economic Growth Fellow New America Foundation
Associate Professor of Economics and Finance, Buffalo State College
School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute
Professor of Economics, Sarah Lawrence College, New York
Visiting Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Associate Professor, Portland State University
Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard
Economics Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College
Professor of Economics and Director of the Honors Program, Department of Economics, Roosevelt University
Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University
Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research Washington DC
University of Vermont
Department of Economics, Bucknell University
Economist, Economic Policy Institute
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Siena College, London
Ira W. De Camp Professor of Bioethics
Senior Economist, Stockholm Environment Institute, Tufts University
Emeritus Professor, California State University
Professor of Economics, Siena College, London
Department of Political Economy, University of Pavia
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Utah
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Utah
Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
Assistant Research Professor, University of Massachusetts
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Denver
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Franklin and Marshall College
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