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Thomas Piketty has missed his flight to South Africa

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Prominent French economist, Thomas Piketty, has missed his flight to South Africa. He was due to arrive on Wednesday for various events before presenting the 13th Annual Nelson Mandela lecture on Saturday. The Nelson Mandela Foundation has confirmed he did not have the required amount of free pages in his passport, but is working on ...

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Prominent French economist, Thomas Piketty, has missed his flight to South Africa. He was due to arrive on Wednesday for various events before presenting the 13th Annual Nelson Mandela lecture on Saturday. The Nelson Mandela Foundation has confirmed he did not have the required amount of free pages in his passport, but is working on attaining and emergency passport. He will present a lecture at UCT via Skype today and hopefully land in person on Wednesday.


The ‘rockstar’ French Economist has been in demand since his book Capital in the Twenty First Century was translated into English last year and became a bestseller and global sensation, despite being nearly 700 pages and gorged with economic data.


His visit is timely because Picketty is an expert in inequality – which happens to be one of South Africa’s biggest economic problems.


In his book, he singles out the Marikana tragedy as a symbol of the effects of inequality and the unfair distribution of capital.



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Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty (7 May 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is a professor (directeur d'études) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), associate chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial professor at the London School of Economics new International Inequalities Institute.

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