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His best-seller “Capital in the 21st century” has been less well received in France as Piketty has become a stern critic of the Hollande government. France's influential economist Thomas ...

The world-famous economist Thomas Piketty published a new 1,200 ... The book is a follow-up to "Capital in the 21st Century," which helped advance key debates surrounding income inequality.

France's influential economist Thomas Piketty, author of the bestseller “Capital in the 21st Century”, refused to accept the country's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur, arguing it is not ...

French economist and author Thomas Piketty said on Friday. The writer of the best-selling book "Capital in the 21st Century" called on India to follow through on a July pledge by finance ministers ...

French economist Thomas Piketty has called on India ... tank RIS and the Delhi School of Economics, the author of Capital in the 21st Century urged India to act on the G20 finance ministers ...

Prompted in significant part by the work of leading economists such as Tony Atkinson, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz, and underlined most spectacularly by the reception of Thomas Piketty’s important ...