COLUMN. Following the intervention in Venezuela, the war against Iran launched by the US president signals yet another ...

No doubt by now many readers of this publication have heard about – or maybe even read – an important new book by French economist Thomas Piketty,"Capital in the Twenty-First Century." This 700-page ...

Last spring, you may remember, the French economist Thomas Piketty was all the rage in certain enlightened circles. His book Capital shot up to the number one spot on bestseller lists, and many ...

Several economists, including Larry Summers, Tony Smith and Per Krusell, have corrected errors in Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century." Now comes Matt Rognlie with a formal ...

A book by a French economist on income inequality has become a pop sensation among Democratic liberal elites. Thomas Piketty‘s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, initially released in France, has an ...

Rockstar French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most influential book in the field this year — everyone is reading or pretending to read it. But the Financial ...

To understand the contemporary debate about income inequality, it helps to be familiar with the deceptive rhetorical technique known as the motte-and-bailey. The motte-and-bailey involves a party ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is facing a reckoning after the country's far right made historic gains in the first round of a snap parliamentary election. Thomas Piketty, bestselling French ...

Piketty mentions the short work The Class Struggles in France, written in 1849-1850, in which Karl Marx denounces Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s Minister of Finance, Achille Fould – a worthy ...

Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of numerous articles published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of ...