About Thomas Piketty
French economist (b. 1971), professor at the Paris School of Economics and the EHESS, who became one of the most influential social scientists in the world with Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013). Working with long-run historical data on income and wealth, Piketty has made the dynamics of inequality central to public debate and become a leading voice for egalitarian economic reform.
Books by Thomas Piketty
A Brief History of Equality
Piketty's most accessible and optimistic book — the hopeful counterpart to his data-heavy Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He argues that, viewed over the long run, history has bent toward greater equality through p…
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The most influential economics book of its generation. Marshalling centuries of data, Piketty argues that when the return on capital outpaces economic growth (r > g), wealth concentrates in the hands of those who alread…
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