{
  "id": 9328111,
  "title": "Why six Nobel Prize economists back California’s Proposition 40: ‘It’s the first opportunity for the people to start reining in the power of billionaires’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/why-six-nobel-prize-economists-back-californias-proposition-40-its",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-23T11:43:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais English",
    "slug": "el-pais-english",
    "url": "https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-09-23/why-six-nobel-prize-economists-back-californias-proposition-40-its-the-first-opportunity-for-the-people-to-start-reining-in-the-power-of-billionaires.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Daron Acemoglu, Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, among others, signed a letter defending a one-time 5% tax on individuals whose wealth is above $1 billion. The initiative will be submitted to a vote on November 3",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}