The international situation in recent years features turbulence and change, with the United States playing an increasingly ...

Thanks to two world wars, strong economic growth, and high fertility, capital took a hit in the middle of the twentieth century and inheritances declined in importance, Piketty conceded. But now we’re ...

Is South Africa truly the most unequal country in the world? This article challenges the widely accepted Gini Coefficient, ...

A decade ago this month, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was released in English (a few months after the French version). It would go on to sell more than 2 million copies ...

Ten years after publication, Capital in the Twenty-First Century remains a landmark study of inequality. Did it change anything? By Quinn Slobodian A decade ago this April, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in ...

Thomas Piketty’s monumental “ Capital in the Twenty-First Century ” (2013) offered one of the most thorough and illuminating studies of capitalist economics since Karl Marx published the ...

When French economist Thomas Piketty published his 2014 doorstopper, Capital in the Twenty-first Century, I doubt even he thought it would cause a stir. But the 696-page book sold like mad, eventually ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Thomas Piketty spent 2014 being called a rock star. This was when the French economist’s Capital in the Twenty-First ...

“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 power ...

‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’: Film Review A head-spinning documentary, based on the book by French economist Thomas Piketty, turns the tale of capital in the last 300 years into a ...