Musical intro by  clair-obscur

Welcome:

Martin Schulz, Chairman of the Board of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)

Panel discussion with the social partners:

• Anja Piel, Member of the Executive Board of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB)
• Christina Ramb, Member of the Executive Board of the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA)

Moderation:
Anke Plättner, Journalist

Opening:

Sabine Fandrych, Member of the Executive Board of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Greeting:

Norbert Walter-Borjans, Co-Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)

Laudation:

• Brigitte Preissl, former Editor-in-Chief of the Journals Wirtschaftsdienst and Intereconomics, Member of the Jury
• Thomas Fricke, Director of the Forum New Economy, columnist at Der Spiegel, Member of the Jury

Award of the Hans Matthöfer Prize for Economic Publishing 2021 to the winners: Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman for their book "The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay" and Philipp Staab for his book "Digital Capitalism - Market and Hegemony in the Economy of Superabundance"

Talk with the award winners:

• Olaf Scholz, Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Brigitte Preissl, Member of the Jury of the Hans Matthöfer Prize for Economic Publishing
• Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
• Gabriel Zucman, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
• Philipp Staab, Professor of the Sociology of the Future of Work at the Humboldt University in Berlin

Moderation:

Anke Plättner, Journalist