At the World Inequality Conference in June, the renowned economist Thomas Piketty and a team of 45 researchers from the World ...

French economist Thomas Piketty’s magnum opus, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, has inspired volumes of commentary, much of it favorable. Piketty has done a great service in compiling data that ...

Now let’s turn to Piketty’s book, which extends the data to more recent years and presents a very similar picture. Figure 10.5 shows the share of wealth going to the richest one per cent of households ...

Last week, when Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the 21st Century was racing to the top of The New York Times' bestseller list, I set out to read the conservative criticisms of the economist behind ...

Thomas Piketty's new book, Capital In The 21st Century is rather taking the economics world by storm. Admittedly, those who love the idea that we should be levying a serious wealth tax do seem to be ...

Given the excitement that Thomas Piketty’s new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, has stirred up within the political left, the French economist probably should have titled it Fifty Shades of ...

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Everyone is talking about "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," the deep dive into inequality written by economist Thomas Piketty, using a seemingly endless parade of data from countries all over the ...

Thomas Piketty is in favor of small government, after all—but only when it doesn’t matter. Over New Year’s, the French economist and author of last year’s much-discussed Capital in the Twenty-First ...

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Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Thomas Piketty spent 2014 being called a rock star. This was when the French economist’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century ...