French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was the most talked about treatise on political economy in 2014, if not the 21 st century. To those of us who understand and ...

Daniel Shuchman reviews "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," by Thomas Piketty. An 80% tax rate on incomes above $500,000 is not meant to bring in money for education or benefits, but 'to put an ...

Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century” is a smash on the Amazon bestsellers list. It is all the rage in DC and other corridors of influence.

I’m a little reluctant to dive ever deeper into the weeds of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century since I’m woefully unqualified for the task. But I have a couple of follow-up ...

Thomas Piketty’s book Capital In The Twenty-First Century has attracted worldwide attention, not because he crusades against inequality – many of us do that– but because of its central ...

“Capital in the 21st Century”: Finally, a Movie That Tells the Story of How We Got Into This Mess . Based on the bestseller by Thomas Piketty, this documentary shows how the elite stays in ...

Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 696 pp., $39.95 A considerable portion of Thomas Piketty's logic, in his intellectually hefty "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" (Belknap Press/Harvard ...

The English translation of French economist Thomas Piketty's magnum opus Capital in the Twenty-First Century is finally out, and it's made an enormous splash (see reviews here, here, and here).It ...

Thomas Piketty talks about Capital in the 21st Century. Newsletter sign up Newsletter; By Ryan Cooper. ... French economist Thomas Piketty explained the basics of his blockbuster new book.

Piketty, whose controversial book explores the concentration of wealth, will deliver the annual Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture. The event is free and open to the public. "Capital in the 21sst ...

For all its faults, however, Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is an intellectual tour de force, a triumph of economic history over the theoretical, mathematical modeling that ...