Auten and Splinter do find that pre-tax income inequality has risen, though less drastically than Piketty and his coauthors have claimed. For the income share of the top 1 percent, the Piketty trend ...

Is South Africa truly the most unequal country in the world? This article challenges the widely accepted Gini Coefficient, ...

Guy Delisle, Jeff Lemire, Kay Sohini, Joanna Rubin Dranger, Chris Thompson and more have compelling graphic novels based in ...

Occasional but substantive disagreement with a book penned by two right-of-center economic giants with whom most on the right ...

For the first time in this country, perhaps the first time anywhere, we are going to use backwardness index.' 'It is a ...

A new study from the World Inequality Lab covers a lot of ground but one of the things that sticks out is that financial transfers are now moving mostly in a North-South direction – because of ...

On Father’s Day, I could not help but think of the late Pope Francis, father to all. Much has been said about his mercy and inclusivity. But even though he majored in ...

Thomas Piketty. Professor at EHESS and the Paris School of Economics. After France's Sénat voted against a 2% wealth tax for people whose worth exceeds €100 million, ...

Supreme Court unanimously rejects special standards for majority-group discrimination claims, reflecting Thomas' view that American law protects individual rather than group rights ...

Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas called out a heckler on social media after he posted several videos showing his disruptive behavior during a Grand Slam Track event in Philadelphia over the weekend.