Income inequality is the normal and future state of capitalism, argues the economist Thomas Piketty ...

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a must-read in that sense: It's at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and everyone with an interest in politics or policy or ...

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. Why all the buzz? Because Dr. Piketty ...

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

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 ...

In the 21st century the distribution of income from capital will become even more unequal than capital ownership per se because there are economies of scale: people with larger portfolios achieve ...

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 21st century. But was it correct? A new book ...

Thomas Piketty Revives Marx for the 21st Century An 80% tax rate on incomes above $500,000 is not meant to bring in money for education or benefits, but 'to put an end to such incomes.' ...

WITH a hardback edition that is almost 700 pages long and weighs more than a kilogramme, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century possesses a daunting physical presence that can ...

But, notes Piketty, “ ‘nonhuman capital’ seems almost as indispensable in the twenty-first century as it was in the eighteenth or nineteenth”.