I aspire to make creative use of our collective understanding of progressive taxation and public expenditures to argue for redistributive design in public policy responses to challenges arising from income and wealth inequalities. As my very modest attempt to make a contribution to public discourse in this age of disinformation, I explore the battle of ideas policy advocates wage on the costs and benefits of progressive taxation and public expenditures, the political commitment people are willing to make to level the playing field between the Haves and Have-nots and the policy options citizens can consider to hold the plutocrats, the oligarchs and the rest of the power elite accountable to democratic ideals.
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As an academic, I focus on redistribution through progressive taxation. In terms of research, I conduct empirical data analysis to explore the political economy of redistribution in light of the reduction of income inequality, wealth inequality and political inequality. In terms of teaching, I promote data literacy in posing challenges to the free-market orthodoxy, the myth of meritocracy as well as the misuses and abuses of metrics.
Fields of expertise: Reduction of inequalities / equity / poverty eradication