The controversies over Piketty’s ideas fall into two major categories: his claims about soaring income inequality in the United States and his forecast of an oligarchic future worldwide, unless a ...

There are few rock stars in economic and tax policy, but Thomas Piketty is one of them. The famous French economist is an authority on income inequality. His book on the subject sold out on Amazon ...

French economist Thomas Piketty’s big, important book has stirred many pots. Three months ago, a mention at dinner parties drew blank stares. Now Capital in the 21st Century is the Game of ...

The Bank of England in London. In his latest book, Thomas Piketty notes the inequality between the Global North and the Global South and lays out proposals to shrink it. (Hollie Adams/Bloomberg ...

Thomas Piketty: Confronting Our Long History of Massive Inequality We talked to the French economist about his new book Capital and Ideology , his thoughts on Covid-19, and more. Daniel Steinmetz ...

Author Thomas Piketty’s last blockbuster helped put inequality at the center of economic debates. Now he’s back with an even longer treatise that explains how governments should fix it — by ...

March 25, 2020. Capital and Ideology Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer Harvard University Press, $39.95 (cloth) The 2014 English publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century made ...

In a new piece in Le Monde, Thomas Piketty makes the case that income inequality is behind ISIS and the recent Paris attacks.

Thomas Piketty’s Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a little book that addresses an issue of great significance: is the social inequality we observe every day natural?. Drawing on historical ...

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There are few rock stars in economic and tax policy, but Thomas Piketty is one of them. The famous French economist is an authority on income inequality. His book on the subject sold out on Amazon ...