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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, delivered a lecture on global economic inequality to a sold-out audience at the Logan Center on Friday, November 6. The lecture was based ...

This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The year 2014 was a heady moment in the economic policy world. That spring, French economist Thomas Piketty ...

Europe’s banking industry has been lobbying to scale down the digital euro project. In November, 14 of the region’s biggest ...

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 ...

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 ...