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

What counts as rich, and how much should it bother the rest of us? The groom at the “wedding of the year” ranks third on the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

It only takes a handful of successful people to leave to decimate the city’s tax base,” billionaire hedge fund manager Bill ...

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 ...

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 ...

A decade ago this month, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was released in English (a few months after the French version). It would go on to sell more than 2 million copies ...

Economist Thomas Piketty and his collaborators Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman are skilled motte-and-bailey technicians, extending indefensible claims about rising inequality, retreating to ...