Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty says the U.S. Democratic Party has lost touch with average people over the last several decades. The acclaimed French economist, whose 2014 book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" was a global best-seller, says the economic model in much of the Western world has dramatically increased inequality, and Democrats need to show people they understand the problem and that they are willing to redistribute wealth from the top to the rest of society. "Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth...

As nearly 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment in just six weeks and millions worldwide face hunger and poverty, we look at the global economic catastrophe triggered by the pandemic and its impact on the most vulnerable. As the World Food Programme warns of a massive spike in global hunger and more than 100 million people in cities worldwide could fall into poverty, can this crisis be a catalyst for change? We ask French economist Thomas Piketty. His 2014 internationally...

Thomas Piketty avalia a crise causada pelo covid-19 e salienta que um de seus aspectos mais nefastos se relaciona ao fato de que a pandemia se distribui diferentemente, a depender dos estratos sociais. A desigualdade, portanto, está no fundamento das curvas de distribuição da pandemia, como se demonstra claramente nos Estados Unidos, por exemplo, país em que a população afrodescendentes têm taxas de infecção, mortalidade etc. muito mais significativas que a população em geral.

Apr.29 -- Thomas Piketty, political economist, author and associate chair at Paris School of Economics, discusses the impact of the coronavirus on the long-term distribution of wealth and how a wealth tax could help deal with the Covid-19 crisis. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.”

L'économiste Thomas Piketty revient sur la lutte contre la pandémie de Covid-19 et sur la stratégie française pour sortir du confinement, présentée mardi 28 avril 2020 par le Premier ministre, Édouard Philippe. Selon lui, "la vraie urgence", c’est de faire face aux "inégalités extrêmement fortes" face à la crise épidémique. Abonnez-vous à notre chaîne sur YouTube : http://f24.my/youtube En DIRECT - Suivez FRANCE 24 ici : http://f24.my/YTliveFR Notre site : http://www.france24.com/fr/...

The unfolding Coronavirus pandemic has sent ripples across the world, affecting both health and economic sectors of our society. What will the effects of this outbreak be on inequality, and how will this translate for the future European economy on a wider scale? How have similar crises and their aftermaths remodeled economic ideologies? POLITICO’s Florian Eder and Marion Solletty host the first ever “Virtual Brussels Playbook Interview” with French economist and Professor Thomas Piketty...