Recommended articles for policymakers: taxes, design in public health and the public value of data analytics


Wealth taxation: The Swiss experience. Wealth taxes are in vogue, and academic research on the subject is picking up. Recent studies have produced widely diverging estimates of the elasticity of the wealth tax base. Some of this is due to methodological differences. This column analyses wealth taxes in Swiss cantons and shows that jurisdiction size and enforcement also play a role. When applied at the sub-national level and without third-party reporting, wealth taxes are particularly easily avoided (VOX EU). You can also read: Which countries tax their citizens the most?

Governance models for redistribution of data value. Personal data have value, and economists failed to predict that this value would become concentrated in the hands of digital platforms. The column presents a novel data-rights approach to redistributing data value while not undermining the ethical, legal and governance challenges of doing so. This can be done by giving individuals authorship rights to their personal data (VOX EU).

Better Government with Data Analytics (four-part Tableau blog series):
  1. Hats, cattle, and analytics
  2. Three ways to build data literacy in your organization
  3. Analytics is a team sport
  4. Plotting the way forward with Tableau Blueprint

Finally, the value of design in global public health (Mckinsey).

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