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Editor's Note: French economist Thomas Piketty's new book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," may be flying off the shelves (Harvard University Press had to send it for a second printing), but ...

Editor's Note: Thomas Piketty acknowledges that some level of inequality is necessary. But what we have in America today -- when the bottom 50 percent of the population owns only 2 percent of the ...

Usually, the Friday afternoon before Memorial Day is the perfect time for a political news dump. The Financial Times used it to drop a major investigation into the data behind Thomas Piketty’s hit ...

Piketty's one of the biggest names in economics at the moment, and he's giving a masterclass at the London School of Economics. Only 15 lucky PhD students will be selected for the six-month class. To ...

There are many reasons why French academic Thomas Piketty’s 685-page tome, “Capital in the 21st Century,” has vaulted to the top of the Amazon.com best seller list and is being discussed with equal ...

Thomas Piketty is a Frenchman who had been promoting wealth redistribution in obscurity. Now that Harvard University Press has published his book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he has ...

Red-hot political economist Thomas Piketty on inequality in the 21 st century. And Economist Gregory Mankiw responds. This undated photo provided by Harvard Press shows French economist Thomas Piketty ...

Thomas Piketty believes that restricting trade to protect domestic industries usually makes a country poorer overall.

French economist Thomas Piketty has said he would back leftist presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon if his chosen candidate does not make the second round of the country's elections, which begin ...

French economist Thomas Piketty stands by his best-selling bookCapital in the Twenty-First Century, and says the Financial Times published a scathing analysis questioning the data without giving him ...