How to Reduce Income Inequality | Pure vs Efficient Redistribution | Thomas Piketty Review This week, the book of the week is The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty. Verdict: this book is not necessarily the best starting point if you are interested in learning more about income inequality. About: "Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty's The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of...
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This week, the book of the week is The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty. Verdict: this book is not necessarily the best starting point if you are interested in learning more about income inequality. About: "Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty's The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears...
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This week, the book of the week is The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty. About: "Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty's The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears in English for the first time". Find me: Facebook facebook.com/maxoklymenko Instagram instagram.com/maxoklymenko Twitter...
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Europe, migrants and trade
While European leaders are preparing to tighten the conditions of entry into the European Union it is worth trying to get a clearer picture of the current patterns of migration and more broadly of Europe’s positioning in the globalisation process. The data available are incomplete but are sufficient to establish the main orders of magnitude. The most comprehensive data are those gathered by the United Nations Population Division on the basis of demographic statistics provided by each...
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While the political crisis deepens in Italy and in Spain, France and Germany are still demonstrably incapable of formulating precise and ambitious proposals for reforming Europe. All that is required however is for these four countries, who alone account for three quarters of the GDP and the population of the Euro zone, to agree on a common approach and the way to reform would be open. How can we explain such extraordinary inertia and why is it so serious? In France, there is a...
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El economista francés Thomas Piketty reconoce la viabilidad de la propuesta económica de Gustavo Petro. un economista especialista en desigualdad económica y distribución de la RIQUEZA GUSTAVO PETRO PRESIDENTE WWW.PETRO.COM.CO https://www.facebook.com/GustavoPetroUrrego/ @GUSTAVOPETROURREGO https://www.instagram.com/gustavopetrourrego/ https://twitter.com/petrogustavo #YoVotoPetro #GuardiánDeEsperanza #TestigosElectorales
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Read More »Maddison Lecture: Thomas Piketty – Rising inequality and globalisation
GGDC Maddison Lecture series: Leading economist Thomas Piketty explores ‘Rising Inequality and Globalisation’. Thomas Piketty is the author of the best-selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which is the result of his path-breaking work on the distribution of wealth over the past 250 years. In a TED talk he summarises his main conclusions: Economic inequality is increasing again, with potentially far-reaching consequences for our society. In his recent work Piketty...
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