Andrea Grisold: Media Prefer Critics of Wealth Tax
“Across all areas, it is true that actors who oppose the reintroduction of wealth taxation or an increase in inheritance tax are disproportionately represented in almost all media examined. When it comes to scientific expertise, this dominance is associated in most of the newspapers examined with an overhang of ordoliberal and mainstream economic positions. Diversity in the representation of economic expert knowledge across different economic approaches is very limited.”
– Andrea Grisold, Director of the Institute for Heterodox Economics at the Vienna University of Economics, in “One-sided Reporting” (The fronts are hardened: While one side demands the reintroduction of wealth taxes to co-finance the Corona measures, including the Left in Germany or Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler in Austria, the opinion-relevant media mostly meet such a desire with skepticism, quickly dismissing it as a “socialist fantasy”.) – Handelsblatt, December 9, 2020, No. 239