Monday , May 6 2024
Home / Thomas Piketty (page 87)

Thomas Piketty

The IMF, the inequality debate, and economic research

Partager cet article A few weeks ago, the IMF published a study challenging some of the inequality-generating mechanisms described in my book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (see the IMF study here). To make it clear, I am very pleased that my book has made a contribution to stimulating public discussion about inequality,  and all the contributions to this debate are worth taking on board! In this instance however, the IMF study does seem to me to be rather weak and not very...

Read More »

Hillary, Apple, and us

Partager cet article In less than two months, the United States will have a new president. If Donald Trump wins it would be a catastrophe for his country but also for the rest of the world. Racist, vulgar, full of himself and of his fortune, he epitomizes the worst of America. And the fact that Hillary Clinton has had so much difficulty in outdistancing him in the opinion polls should give us all food for thought. Trump’s strategy is classical: he explains to the poorer whites...

Read More »

Thomas Piketty, Economiste, co-auteur de “Pour une révolution fiscale” – Le 19H (26/01/2011)

Aujourd'hui, Nicolas Sarkozy reçoit le rapport de Jean-Marc Sauvé, Didier Migaud et Jean-Claude Magendie sur la prévention des conflits d'intérêts. Intitulé "Pour une nouvelle déontologie de la vie publique", ce rapport choc préconise notamment de retenir une définition opérationnelle du conflit d'intérêt et d'obliger 4000 acteurs publics à faire une déclaration d'intérêts. Décodage avec l'avocat Dominique Schmidt, auteur du livre de référence, "Les Conflits d'intérêts dans la société...

Read More »

É a meritocracia um mito? (Leg. – PT) – Thomas Piketty

[Ativar legendas] O economista francês Thomas Piketty, que dá aula na Paris School of Economics, põe em cheque a incoerência do discurso que justifica as desigualdades a partir de uma suposta meritocracia a qual não se encontra nos fatos: para que fossemos uma sociedade de real mobilidade sócio-econômica, onde os cargos seriam ocupados de acordo com o mérito (talento + esforço) de cada um, seria necessário uma situação onde as oportunidades fossem distribuídas de maneira muito mais...

Read More »