Thomas Piketty

World renowned French economist Thomas Piketty who specialises on wealth and income inequality was in South Africa to address the 13th Nelson Mandela annual lecture, and Bob Mabena had a sit down with him to talk about all things economy.

Rock star economist Thomas Piketty was on his first visit to South Africa to give the Nelson Mandela lecture. CNBC Africa spoke to him about what South Africa needs to do to deal with inequality.

Thomas Piketty, Economics Professor at the Paris School of Economics, presented the 2015 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) Soweto Campus on 3 October 2015.

The visit of a famous French economist has sparked soul searching around the high levels of inequality in South Africa. The so-called 'rockstar' economist, Thomas Piketty, delivered the 13th Annual Nelson Mandela lecture at the University of Johannesburg's Soweto campus on Saturday. Piketty's book, Capital in the 21st Century, topped best selling lists in 2014. He argues that countries cannot rely on market forces to redistribute wealth and uplift the poor. He says without a global tax for...

UJ presents the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture with Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty giving the 13th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture at the University of Johannesburg's Soweto campus. Pikkety, who has been called the most influential economist in the world, addressed issues regarding poverty, inequality and unemployment in South Africa....http://owl.li/SYl0k For more News visit: http://www.sabc.co.za/news Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SABCNewsOnline?lang=en Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SABCNewsOnline

French Economist, Professor Thomas Piketty, delivers the Lecture in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Our business news anchors, Francis Herd and Devan Murugan are there...http://owl.li/SYkOB For more News visit: http://www.sabc.co.za/news Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SABCNewsOnline?lang=en Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SABCNewsOnline

Prof. Piketty has been in demand since his book 'Capital in the 21st Century' was translated into English last year and became a bestseller and global sensation, despite being nearly 700 pages and gorged with economic data. His visit is timely because Picketty is an expert in inequality which happens to be one of South Africa's biggest economic problems. For more News visit: http://www.sabc.co.za/news Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SABCNewsOnline?lang=en Like us on Facebook:...

World-renowned French economist, academic, researcher, author, columnist and public intellectual, Professor Thomas Piketty on Friday night accepted an honorary doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Johannesburg. The University's Faculty of Economic and Financial Sciences conferred the honorary doctoral degree on Prof Piketty, in acknowledgment of his contributions to knowledge concerning issues of inequality and poverty. Prof Piketty will also deliver the 13th Nelson Mandela...

Thomas Piketty, Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and bestselling author of Capital in the 21st Century, tells The CORE Project (https://core-econ.org) how he "tries to be useful" by collecting long-run data into the distribution of wealth - and what it tells us about the effects of wealth inequality on society. CORE is a global community of learners, teachers and researchers that is transforming how economics is learned by bringing recent advances in the field to bear...