Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Jeremy Bearer-Friend
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Williamson & Bearer-Friend: Thomas Paine and Taxing Billionaires
Vanessa Williamson (Brookings) & Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington), The Case for Taxing Billionaires Is Older Than You Think, MSNBC (Nov. 12, 2025): The “overgrown influence” of extreme wealth, wrote Thomas Paine in 1792, was “one of the principal sources of corruption at elections.” More than 200 years later, billionaires line up behind the president at his inauguration and the
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SSRN Review & Roundup: Harpaz Reviews Bearer-Friend & Polcz’s Sharing the Algorithm
This week, Assaf Harpaz (Georgia, Google Scholar) reviews a new work by Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz, Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative AI, 17 Colum. J. Tax L. __ (forthcoming 2025). The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) threatens to destabilize labor patterns and develop market monopolies with extreme concentrations of wealth.