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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Piketty argued that, absent a world war, returns to capital will exceed economic growth, inevitably producing growing inequality in the twenty-first century. There are problems with Piketty’s ...

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 ...

Thomas Piketty Thinks Inequality Led to the Rise of ISIS. Is That Crazy? By Annie Lowrey. Dec. 1, 2015. save d. Save this article to read it later. ... This Is Thomas Piketty’s Theory on ISIS ...

Given that half the economists in the world are currently picking their way through the arguments in Thomas Piketty's new book (and, weirdly for an economics book, the Amazon no 1 best seller ...

Thomas Piketty turned 18 in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, so he was spared the tortured, decades-long French intellectual debate about the virtues and vices of communism.

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 ...