It’s a good time for an update on Piketty’s thought and the controversies it has generated. In the years since Capital’s publication, other researchers have compellingly challenged the economist’s ...

Thomas Piketty (Professor at EHESS and the Paris School of Economics) Translation of an original article published in French on lemonde.fr; the publisher may only be liable for the French version.

A ground-breaking new analysis by Thomas Piketty and Gaston Nievas reveals how centuries of colonial exploitation systematically transferred wealth from India and other colonies to Europe, fuelling ...

Zohran Mamdani, the person who defeated Cuomo in the primaries and is now seen as a mayoral contender for New York – the ...

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

The international situation in recent years features turbulence and change, with the United States playing an increasingly ...

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

Piketty wrote in 2013 that when considering the total growth of the U.S. economy in the 30 years prior to the 2007-08 crisis — from 1977 to 2007 — the richest 10 percent “appropriated three ...

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 ...

COLUMN. More than the erratic policies on tariffs and inflation, it is the Trump administration's ideological attacks that pose a long-term threat to US power, argues the economist Patrick Artus ...

Baby Boomers (those born between 1946-1964, or aged 61-79 in 2025) stand out as the wealthiest generation in history. Born ...