Thomas Piketty’s monumental “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” (2013) offered one of the most thorough and illuminating studies of capitalist economics since Karl Marx published the ...

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 ...

The economist Thomas Piketty, author of 'Capital in the 21st Century,' may be causing a stir in the U.S., but his views are ho-hum in his own country.

Thomas Piketty, for his part, understands the danger of restricting the great inequality debate to economists only, and he is also oddly well-informed about the history of the estate tax in the ...

French economist Thomas Piketty acknowledges that every society needs some degree of inequality. But when the bottom 50 percent of America owns only 2 percent of the wealth, we've strayed too far ...

Thomas Piketty identifies an important ill of capitalism but not its cure. May 14, 2014. The year 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' arrival in the United States.

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 ...

Professor Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics has come to America to tell us that many of our problems could be solved with higher taxes on wealth and an increase in the minimum wage.

Thomas Piketty is not the anti-capitalist radical that his critics fear. "The market economy," he tells me at the bar of the St Regis Hotel in downtown Washington, DC, "is a system that has a lot ...

Thomas Piketty Revives Marx for the 21st Century. An 80% tax rate on incomes above $500,000 is not meant to bring in money for education or benefits, but 'to put an end to such incomes.' By .