Fighting inequalities and redistribution of wealth: Andrea Roventini, director of the Institute of Economics, among the speakers at the conference to rethink tax policies in Italy and Europe

Andrea Roventini, director of the Institute of Economics of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, is among the speakers at the conference ‘Fighting inequality, combating poverty and welfare policies: the role of tax systems’, scheduled for Friday 14 February in Rome at the Sala Igea of the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
The conference, organised by Oxman Italia, the ICRIT Commission and the NENS study centre, intends to stimulate a public discussion on the necessary rethinking of tax policies in the name of greater distributive equity and in support of universalist welfare. With an international perspective that will see, in the first session, the participation of Nobel Prize winner for Economics, Prof. J. E. Sitglitz, followed by analyses and proposals for the national context and the reaction of the political leaders of the main opposition parties in the Italian parliament.

Roventini's speech revolves around a study presented by the lecturer himself, in collaboration with other scholars, including Elisa Palagi, a research fellow at the Institute of Economics, and Demetrio Guzzardi, a research affiliate at the Institute of Economics, in which he illustrates possible corrective measures to the current tax system, including higher taxation on capital (the tax system has been regressive for years for the richest taxpayers) that would lead to a reduction in inequalities.