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Thomas Piketty
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Thomas Piketty is a French economist and author whose research examines public economics, particularly the distribution and concentration of income and wealth.
Biography
Thomas Piketty, born in 1971, is a French economist specializing in public economics and income and wealth inequality. He is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics, and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.
His 2013 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, examines wealth concentration and distribution over 250 years. His work identifies education and the spread of knowledge and skills as mechanisms for reducing inequality. His later books include Capital and Ideology, published in 2019, which explores income inequality across historical societies, and A Brief History of Equality, published in 2022, a shorter treatment of wealth redistribution written for citizens rather than economists.
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Books by Thomas Piketty
Le capital au XXIe siècle
Le capital au XXIe siècle (2013) examines the accumulation and distribution of capital using data from twenty countries extending back to the eighteenth century. It argues that returns on capital exceeding economic growth drive rising wealth inequality, while political action can help curb it.