Thomas Piketty

Can society continue its long-run trajectory and commit to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can advance equality? World-renowned economist and inequality researcher Thomas Piketty in conversation with Rob Johnson, President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking about Piketty’s just-released book, A Brief History of Equality. The book condenses 20 years’ worth of research into inequality and provides well-founded reasons to believe that...

Can society continue its long-run trajectory and commit to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can advance equality? World-renowned economist and inequality researcher Thomas Piketty in conversation with Rob Johnson, President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking about Piketty’s just-released book, A Brief History of Equality. The book condenses 20 years’ worth of research into inequality and provides well-founded reasons to believe that...

Is it possible to break out of the present three-tier democracy in France and more generally on a European and international scale, and rebuild a left-right divide centred on questions of redistribution and social inequality? This is the central issue of the current legislative elections in France. Let us first recall the contours of the three-tier democracy, as expressed in the first round of the presidential elections. If we add up the various candidates from the left-wing and ecological...

Thomas Piketty - Entretien (Hors-champs) 2013

Spotkanie w warszawskiej świetlicy Krytyki Politycznej prowadzi Sławomir Sierakowski. Książki Thomasa Piketty'ego, światowej sławy ekonomisty dostępne tutaj: https://wydawnictwo.krytykapolityczna.pl/module/iqitsearch/searchiqit?s=piketty

Tyler Cowen presses Thomas Piketty on the role of real estate in wealth inequality. Piketty doubles down despite other research. Cool exchange. #piketty #inequality #wealth #realestate #capitalism #tylercowen #georgism #podcast #freemarket #libertarian #inequity #housing #europe #unitedstates

Thomas Piketty is one of the foremost economists in the world, renowned for his work on wealth concentration and inequality. The author of the bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century, his latest book, A Brief History of Equality, focuses on the ways in which the world has become more equal over the course of the last centuries. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Thomas Piketty discuss why inequality has increased within rich countries over the course of the last few...