Thomas Piketty

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17/01/2017 - Economie Université populaire du Pays d'Aubagne et de l'Etoile uppae.fr

10/01/2017 - Economie Université populaire du Pays d'Aubagne et de l'Etoile uppae.fr

Partager cet article In less than four months, France will have a new president, but will the president be a man or a woman? After Trump and Brexit there is a risk that the opinion polls will be wrong once again and that Marine Le Pen’s nationalist right wing will come close to winning. Even if the cataclysm is avoided this time there is a real risk of her succeeding in appearing to be the only credible opponent to the liberal right for the next elections. On the radical left,...

Partager cet article The World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world) is now available on a new website  offering more data visualization tools and more extensive data series. Thanks to the combined efforts of Facundo Alvaredo, Tony Atkinson, Lucas Chancel, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman and over 110 researchers covering 70 countries from all over the world, WID.world offers open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the...

Partager cet article At the start of 2017, with the elections in France in the Spring and then in Germany in the Autumn, it may prove useful to return to one of the fundamental issues which plagues discussion at European level, that is the alleged economic asymmetry between Germany with its reputation as prosperous and France which is described as on the decline. I use the term ‘alleged’ because, as we shall see, the level of productivity of the German and French economies – as...

03/01/2017 - Economie Université populaire du Pays d'Aubagne et de l'Etoile uppae.fr

Partager cet article Anthony B. Atkinson passed away in the morning of January 1st 2017, at the age of 72, after a long illness. This leaves us with an invaluable loss. Anthony « Tony » Atkinson occupies a unique place among economists. During the past half-century, in defiance of prevailing trends, he placed the question of inequality at the center of his work while demonstrating that economics is first and foremost a social and moral science. Tony was born in 1944 and published...

Es war der junge französische Ökonom Thomas Piketty, der mit seinem Buch "Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert“ in Fachkreisen weltweit für Aufsehen sorgte. Nicht aufgrund ethischer oder philosophischer Überlegungen, sondern aufgrund der Untersuchung empirischer Daten gelangte Piketty zu dem Ergebnis, dass in westlichen Staaten seit den 70er Jahren die soziale Ungleichheit zunimmt. Reichtum wird auch heute nicht anders verteilt als vor 100 oder 200 Jahren zur Zeit des ausgehenden Feudalismus....

Partager cet article The debate on basic income has at least one virtue, namely that of reminding us that there is a degree of consensus in France on the fact that everyone should have a minimum income. Disagreements exist over the amount. At the moment, the Revenu de Solidarité Active or RSA (the French minimum income scheme) granted to single individuals with no dependant children is 530 Euros per month, a sum which some people find sufficient, and others would like to increase...