French economist is co-director of World Inequality Lab, which is proposing an average monthly income of €5,000 per person by ...

Rockstar French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most influential book in the field this year — everyone is reading or pretending to read it. But the Financial ...

Dubbed the “rock-star economist,” France’s Thomas Piketty has topped the Amazon.com bestseller list with the surprise blockbuster book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” which argues that because ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Thomas Piketty is having another moment in the blogosphere. As you may remember, he’s ...

Usually, the Friday afternoon before Memorial Day is the perfect time for a political news dump. The Financial Times used it to drop a major investigation into the data behind Thomas Piketty’s hit ...

“Piketty findings undercut by errors,” the Financial Times headline screamed. And the story itself, by Chris Giles, who did the investigation, was quick to draw an odious comparison: The data ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the explosive story published on Friday afternoon, the Financial ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Did the economics profession just resoundingly reject Thomas Piketty’s most famous theory? You might ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. French economist Thomas Piketty has said he would back leftist ...

The French economist Thomas Piketty's book, "Capital in the 21st Century," has caused quite a firestorm in the U.S. Paul Krugman, writing in the New York Review of Books, described it as "a call to ...

A popular French economist says billionaires are harmful to economic growth and would be effectively abolished under his tax plan, In an interview with the French magazine L'Obs, Thomas Piketty calls ...