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Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by wh...

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Protectionism does not produce wealth, and free trade and economic openness are ultimately in everyo...

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to grea...

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the futur...

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The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and...

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We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billiona...

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Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed...

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Thomas Piketty

Economist

Born: 1971-05-07

Died: N/A

Thomas Piketty (born on 7 May 1971) is a French economist and Professor at the Paris School of Economics, who works on wealth and income inequality. He is the author of the best selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which emphasizes the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years.More