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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Piketty lectured on his 2013 bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, last Friday in Memorial Auditorium. Capital explores wealth and income inequality in U.S. and western European economies.

Thomas Piketty: Let me first stress that I am optimistic about equality and inequality. In my book, A Brief History of Equality, I stress that, even though there’s a lot of inequality today in Europe, ...

Thomas Piketty, of the Paris School of Economics, was dubbed the “rock star economist” after his book Capital in the 21st Century was published in 2014. It was remarkable that a 700-page ...

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’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’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?

Thomas Piketty argues that rates of inequality are directly related to a country's political culture and institutions. BalkansCat/Shutterstock What works: Sweden vs. the United States ...