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SER Café Event: Taxing the Super Rich

On By Jessica UrzúaIn Announcements, virtual sessionLeave a comment

Join us for the next SER Café event on the theme “Taxing the Super Rich.” This session will feature a discussion with recent Socio-Economic Review authors Marlies Glasius (University of Amsterdam) and Andy Summers (London School of Economics).

In her 2025 article “Tax talk in the Rich Lists: from celebrating to scrutinizing the super-rich,” Marlies Glasius examines journalism surrounding the Sunday Times and Forbes Rich Lists from 1995 to 2022 to analyze how media narratives about taxing the super-rich have evolved, showing that coverage of wealth taxation and tax avoidance changed markedly after the global financial crisis.

The second article, “‘But Switzerland’s boring’: tax migration and the pull of place-specific cultural capital,” by Sam Friedman, Victoria Gronwald, Andy Summers, and Emma Taylor, investigates how economic elites weigh taxation when deciding where to live, finding that attachment to place—particularly London’s cultural infrastructure—often outweighs the financial incentives of tax migration. Andy Summers will join the discussion to represent the author team.

The event will take place on 30 March 2026 at 09:00 PDT / 17:00 BST / 18:00 CEST. Please register at this link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/Wf4VkWXFS12d0lfYdkuBaA.

As with all SER Café events, this session will prioritize dynamic conversation with the authors over lengthy presentations. Come ready to engage, ask questions, and discuss. Our authors look forward to your questions and comments.

Team SER Café (Ezgi, Fan, and Kyungmo)
Socio-Economic Review

Announcement: Please Join Socio-Economic Review (SER) Café Event on Friday, January 30th, 2026 via Zoom!

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Join us for an engaging SER Café event featuring a thought-provoking discussion with recent Socio-Economic Review authors, Tiago Vieira (European University Institute), Pedro Mendonça (Heriot-Watt University), Qi Song (Northwestern University), and Tiantian Liu (The University of Manchester).

The paper published by Tiago Vieira and Pedro Mendonça in 2025, The times, are they changing? Examining platform companies’ chameleonic labour process as a response to the Spanish Rey Rider, Tiago Vieira, Pedro Mendonça investigates the impact of Spain’s Ley Rider (Rider Law), which established a universal presumption of employment for platform couriers by highlighting platform companies as “institutional chameleons,” to underline their ability to adjust their operations to either comply with or circumvent new regulatory frameworks. Qi Song and Tiantian Liu published their study in 2025 called Transcending boundaries and breaking social safety nets: how digital platforms reorganize the market and exacerbate economic insecurity, Qi Song, Tiantian Liu to explore the platformization of the Chinese freight transportation sector, specifically the emergence of the Full Truck Alliance (FTA) by arguing that platforms have replaced traditional “relational infrastructures”—social networks based on trust and local ties—with centralized digital infrastructures.

The event will take place on Friday, January 30th, 2026, 8:00 AM PT / 4:00 PM GMT (UK) / 5:00 PM CET. Please register at this link: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/yewOixmESU6pA75inJbSeQ

As with all SER Café events, this session will prioritize dynamic conversation with the authors over lengthy presentations. Come ready to engage, ask questions, and discuss these critical contributions to the field. Our authors look forward to your questions and comments.

Team SER Café (Ezgi, Fan, and Kyungmo)

Socio-Economic Review