Thomas Piketty
How Income Inequality Today Differs From the Past
Surya Gowda reviews Branko Milanović’s Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War and how his analysis of class and inequality applies to contemporary America.
Thomas Piketty On Creating A More Equal Society
In this unedited podcast conversation, economist Thomas Piketty talks to Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales about the lessons from this movement toward equality and...
The Secret Code of Capital and the Origin of Wealth Inequality
Capital is not a thing, but a social relation enforced by the law and the state. With the right legal coding, any object, claim,...
The Rate of Return on Everything
A new paper purports to have finally unlocked the mystery of the rate of return on capital. Here the authors report on their research on...
Who Are the Top 1 Percent in America? The Answer from New Research Might Surprise You
A new paper challenges Thomas Piketty’s portrayal of an income distribution dominated at the top by passive rentiers who do nothing to earn their money,...
