Social Science and Public Policy
State of Democracy Lecture: Jesse Eisinger
March 3, 2023 at 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Auditorium
This event has already occurred. The information may no longer be valid.
“How the Ultra-Rich Avoid Taxes, and Why It Matters for Our Democracy.”
Jesse Eisinger is a senior editor and reporter at ProPublica. He is the author of the “ The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.”
He serves on the advisory board of the University of California; Berkeley’s Financial Fraud Institute and he was a consultant on season three of the HBO series “Succession.”
He was the lead reporter on “The Secret IRS Files,” a series that explored the tax avoidance techniques of the ultrawealthy, drawing a massive trove of previously never-seen tax records of the richest Americans. It won the Selden Ring and the Barlett & Steele prize, among others.
In April 2011, he and a colleague won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of stories on questionable Wall Street practices that helped make the financial crisis the worst since the Great Depression. He won the 2015 Gerald Loeb Award for commentary. He has also twice been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
He was a regular columnist for The New York Times’s Dealbook section. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, NewYorker.com, the Washington Post, the Baffler, the American Prospect and on NPR and “This American Life.” Before joining ProPublica, he was the Wall Street Editor of Conde Nast Portfolio and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, covering markets and finance.
This event was first published on January 23, 2023 and last updated on February 20, 2023.
Event Details
- Category
- Social Science and Public Policy
- Region
- Campus
- Open to
- Public
- Cost
- None
- Contact
- Kelley Coleman
kgcolema@syr.edu
315.443.9707
- Accessibility
- CART,
- Captioning
- Contact Kelley Coleman to request additional accommodations
- Parking
- Parking available in the Irving Garage for a small fee