Thomas Piketty

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Thomas Piketty is Professor at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and at the Paris School of Economics. He earned his Ph.D from the London School of Economics – at the age of 22, even winning an award from the French Economics Association for his thesis.

Piketty is an expert in the study of economic inequality. In his research, he uses a longitudinal approach, drawing from centuries of historical data to better understand the long term impacts of various economic policies for wealth distribution. A vocal proponent for global wealth redistribution, he has concluded that systemic income inequality will never self-correct. Instead, solutions such as a progressive global tax may prove effective.

In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he suggests that solving income inequality will require deliberate action, but most importantly, that solving income inequality by reforming capitalism is necessary for the ongoing survival of democracy. He has written numerous books in French and English, but this book was his most highly acclaimed, earning him the British Academy Medal and reaching #1 on The New York Times bestseller list for nonfiction.

In 2015, he turned down the French Legion Medal of Honour on the principle that he would rather be honored by his peers than the government.

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) (8811)
Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998 (2003) (3321)
Top Incomes in the Long Run of History (2009) (2222)
Capital in the 21st Century (2015) (1352)
Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010 (2013) (1073)
Income inequality in the United States (2003) (1036)
The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective (2006) (790)
Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities (2011) (732)
Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States (2016) (731)
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective (2013) (727)
Social Mobility and Redistributive Politics (1995) (717)
Inequality in the long run (2014) (677)
The Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution and the Interest Rate with Credit Rationing (1997) (670)
World inequality report 2018 (2018) (553)
Income Inequality in France, 1901–1998 (2001) (512)
Top incomes over the twentieth century: A contrast between continental european and english-speaking countries (2007) (506)
How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? A Historical and International Perspective (2006) (425)
Dualism and macroeconomic volatility (1999) (413)
On the Long Run Evolution of Inheritance - France 1820-2050 (2010) (365)
Theories of persistent inequality and intergenerational mobility (2000) (331)
Top Incomes: A Global Perspective (2010) (300)
The Economics of Inequality (2015) (292)
A Theory of Optimal Inheritance Taxation (2012) (285)
Optimal Labor Income Taxation (2012) (256)
The world top incomes database (2012) (250)
The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens (2015) (248)
Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015 (2017) (246)
Wealth Concentration in a Developing Economy: Paris and France, 1807-1994 (2004) (244)
Wealth and Inheritance in the Long Run (2014) (241)
Top Indian Incomes, 1922-2000 (2004) (234)
Capital and Ideology (2019) (219)
Top Incomes and the Great Recession: Recent Evolutions and Policy Implications (2013) (217)
From Soviets to oligarchs: inequality and property in Russia 1905-2016 (2017) (188)
Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from Wid.World (2017) (185)
Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2015) (182)
Voting as Communicating (2000) (173)
Indian Income Inequality, 1922-2014: From British Raj to Billionaire Raj? (2017) (165)
Carbon and inequality: From Kyoto to Paris (2015) (163)
A Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation (2012) (135)
Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998 (Series Updated to 2000 Available) (2001) (134)
The information-aggregation approach to political institutions (1999) (110)
Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, 1986-2015 (2006) (108)
Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA) (2018) (106)
Generalized Pareto Curves: Theory and Applications (2017) (104)
Inherited vs Self-Made Wealth: Theory & Evidence from a Rentier Society (Paris 1872-1937) (2011) (103)
Distributional National Accounts (DINA) Guidelines : Concepts and Methods used in WID.world (2016) (102)
Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates and Simulations for France (2016) (93)
Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Rising Inequality & the Changing Structure of Political Conflict (2018) (89)
Self-fulfilling beliefs about social status (1998) (89)
Carbon and inequality: From Kyoto to Paris Trends in the global inequality of carbon emissions (1998-2013) & prospects for an equitable adaptation fund World Inequality Lab (2015) (86)
Measuring Inequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World's Most Unequal Region? (2017) (77)
The Economics of Inequality: Harvard University Press (2015) (76)
The Elephant Curve of Global Inequality and Growth (2018) (72)
The Kuznets curve: Yesterday and tomorrow (2006) (71)
The Impact of Divorce on School Performance: Evidence from France, 1968-2002 (2003) (68)
Capital in the Twenty-first (2015) (68)
On the Share of Inheritance in Aggregate Wealth: Europe and the USA, 1900–2010 (2017) (66)
Measuring Top Incomes and Inequality in the Middle East: Data Limitations and Illustration with the Case of Egypt (2014) (65)
How progressive is the US federal tax system? A historical and international perspective (2007) (65)
Capital in the twenty-first century: a multidimensional approach to the history of capital and social classes. (2014) (62)
Income and Wealth Concentration in Switzerland Over the 20th Century (2005) (55)
Top income shares in the long run: An overview (2005) (54)
The Top 1% in International and Historical Perspective (2013) (47)
Implementation of First-Best Allocations via Generalized Tax Schedules (1993) (47)
A federal voting mechanism to solve the fiscal-externality problem (1996) (36)
Information Aggregation Through Voting and Vote-Trading (2002) (34)
Top Indian Incomes, 1956-2000 (2003) (34)
Attitudes toward income inequality in France: Do people really disagree? (1999) (30)
Brahmin Left Versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020 (2021) (27)
Distributional national accounts (2018) (24)
Existence of fair allocations in economies with production (1994) (21)
Inequality and redistribution in France, 1990-2018: evidence from post-tax distributional national accounts (2018) (20)
From Communism to Capitalism: Private Versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia (2018) (19)
The Economics of Rising Inequalities (2004) (18)
Imperfect Capital Markets and Persistence of Initial Wealth Inequalities (1992) (17)
Can fiscal redistribution undo skill-biased technical change? Evidence from the French experience (1999) (15)
The Politics of Redistribution: Recent Developments and Research Perspectives* (1996) (14)
Simplified Distributional National Accounts (2019) (14)
CAPITAL AND WEALTH TAXATION IN THE 21 ST CENTURY (2015) (12)
6. The Capital- Labor Split in the Twenty- First Century (2014) (12)
Appendix to "Income Inequality in France, 1900-2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (2020) (11)
How to Democratize Europe (2019) (11)
The Dynamics of Income Concentration over the Twentieth Century: The Case of Advanced Economies (2009) (11)
Growing Cleavages in India ? Evidence from the Changing Structure of Electorates , 1962 – 2014 (2019) (10)
Should We Make the Richest Pay to Meet Fiscal Adjustment Needs (2013) (10)
On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance: (2010) (9)
A Practical Vision of a More Equal Society (2015) (9)
Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, 1986-2010 * (2004) (9)
Inequality and Redistribution in France (2018) (9)
Tony Atkinson and His Legacy (2017) (9)
Capital, inequality, and power (2015) (8)
Dynamic Voting Equilibrium, Political Consevatism and Income Redistribution (1993) (8)
The Conscription of Wealth (2009) (8)
A Historical Approach to Property, Inequality and Debt: Reflections on Capital in the 21st Century (2015) (8)
Taxation with Representation (2005) (7)
A Brief History of Equality (2022) (7)
France: how taxation can increase inequality (2014) (7)
22. Toward a Reconciliation between Economics and the Social Sciences (2017) (6)
Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Global Inequality Estimates from WID.world (2020) (6)
The End of the Rentiers: Paris 1842-1957 (2018) (6)
Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century: Inequality and Redistribution, 1901–1998 (2018) (6)
Capital, Inequality and Justice: Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2015) (6)
Review : Thomas Piketty , Capital in the Twenty First Century (2014) (6)
Wealth, Taxation and Inequality (2018) (5)
Optimal Taxation of Labor Income (2013) (5)
GROWING INEQUALITIES AND THEIR IMPACTS IN FRANCE (2013) (5)
, Capital in the Twenty-First Century ( 2014 ) ) (2017) (5)
Income inequality under colonial rule evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920–1960 (2020) (5)
Electoral Cleavages and Socioeconomic Inequality in Germany, 1949–2017 (2021) (4)
Evaluating the e ciency of the tax incentives toward corporate philanthropy (2013) (4)
Capital in the twenty-first century by Thomas Piketty : summary, key ideas and facts (2014) (4)
Export Booms and Labor Coercion: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine (2020) (4)
GINI Country Report: Growing Inequalities and their Impacts in France (2013) (4)
Piketty, Thomas, Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016–2021 (2021) (4)
Time for Socialism (2021) (4)
How Progessive is the Us Federal Tax System? An Historical and International Perspective (2006) (3)
19. Manifesto for the Democratization of Europe (2019) (3)
Measuring inequality in the Middle East (2021) (3)
Political conflict, social inequality and electoral cleavages in Central-Eastern Europe, 1990-2018 (2020) (3)
Die Schlacht um den Euro (2015) (3)
Reflections on Capital in the 21st Century (2015) (2)
The Piketty Phenomenon (2015) (2)
Determinants Of Banks Profitability Evidence (2020) (2)
Capital and ideology: A global perspective on inequality regimes. (2021) (2)
About Capital, Socialism and Ideology (2021) (1)
The Return of Capital and the Growth of Inequality (2013) (1)
Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, IQSe^OIS1 (2009) (1)
Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism? (2021) (1)
Note to the Reader (2015) (1)
Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990–2019 (2021) (1)
THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN SPAIN: EVIDENCE FROM CAPITALIZED INCOME TAX DATA Master Thesis written by Clara Martínez-Toledano Toledano and supervised by Professors (2015) (1)
Tony Atkinson: The birth and development of modern inequality studies (2018) (1)
Income Distribution Theory: A Survey of Selected Recent Contributions (1998) (1)
Toward a Political and Historical Economics Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2015) (1)
Social Inequality and the Dynamics of Political and Ethnolinguistic Divides in Pakistan, 1970–2018 (2021) (1)
France Preliminary Estimates of Top Income Shares 2006-2012: Note on Methods (2015) (1)
11. Merit and Inheritance in the Long Run (2014) (1)
Supplementary Materials for Inequality in the long run (2014) (1)
Book review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century/Le capital au XXI e siècle (2014) (1)
Wealth taxation in the 21st century: A personal view (2009) (1)
13. A Social State for the Twenty- First Century (2014) (1)
Soak the Rich:An exchange on capital, debt, and the future (2014) (1)
Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail (2022) (1)
The dynamics of inequality (2020) (1)
Income Inequality Under Colonial Rule: Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and Comparisons with the British Empire 1920-1960 (2020) (0)
DEBT, GROWTH AND INCOME CONCENTRATION: Evidence from Spain (2014) (0)
Elements of a Response to Gaël Giraud (2014) (0)
Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis (2020) (0)
Einleitung (2020) (0)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (2021) (0)
Income Taxation, Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar (TAPES) (2010) (0)
Piketty's grandchildren (2015) (0)
10. Inequality of Capital Own ership (2014) (0)
Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: (2021) (0)
Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail (2022) (0)
Thomas Piketty and public debt (2020) (0)
Personenregister (2020) (0)
Thomas Piketty looks back on the success of Capital in the 21st Century (2016) (0)
GIVING A LITTLE HELP TO GIRLS? GRADE DISCRIMINATION AND ITS EFFECT ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT (2015) (0)
16. The Question of the Public Debt (2014) (0)
Capital, Power and the Learning of Justice (2021) (0)
Conclusion (2021) (0)
2. Capital- Labor In e quality (2015) (0)
2 Power , Ideology and Indeterminacy : Borders and Property (2021) (0)
Piketty's "capital," in a lot less than 696 pages: : interaction (2014) (0)
From Soviets to oligarchs: inequality and property in Russia 1905-2016 (2018) (0)
Inequality of opportunity in France: The role of spatial segregation in the ethnic gap (2020) (0)
The Working Class Hero : Piketty ’ s Capital in the Twenty-First Century Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2015) (0)
Political Conflict, Social Inequality, and Electoral Cleavages in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, 1990–2018 (2021) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
OP-QJEC140017 1255..1310 (2014) (0)
4. Instruments of Redistribution (2015) (0)
Replication data for: From Communism to Capitalism: Private versus Public Property and Inequality in China and Russia (2019) (0)
Building the World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database: A New Dataset on Electoral Behaviors in 50 Democracies, 1948-2020 (2021) (0)
The effect of the Revenu de Solidarité Active on part-time employment (2012) (0)
Chapter 1 Reassessing Dynamic E ffi ciency (2019) (0)
Classification : H 100 Keywords : inheritance , optimal taxation and wealth (2012) (0)
Envisioning Europe's Economic Future from a Long-Term Historical Perspective (2015) (0)
Replication data for: Simplified Distributional National Accounts (2019) (0)
Universities’ Autonomy: A Deception (2009) (0)
Caste, Class, and the Changing Political Representation of Social Inequalities in India, 1962–2019 (2021) (0)
A HistoricAl ApproAcH to property , inequAlity And debt : reflections on Capital in the 21 st Century tHomAs piketty * (2015) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A THEORY OF OPTIMAL CAPITAL TAXATION (2012) (0)
From e-governance to datafication: Concerns on inclusion, participation and rights The case of India: The biometric identity project Obstacles to India’s data-based democratization The case of China: The social credit score project (2019) (0)
Focus A HistoricAl ApproAcH to property , inequAlity And debt : reflections on Capital in the 21 (2015) (0)
Bibliografie (2020) (0)
3. Inequality of Labor Income (2015) (0)
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with Funding from Boston Library Consortium Iviember Libraries Working Paper Department of Economics \na Ge Inequatmr and Segrega Tion by Skill (2011) (0)
Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020 (2021) (0)
Appendix G: Methodology and Results of the Estimates Based on the National Accounts Series (1900–1998) (2018) (0)
Capital, Inequality and Justice: Reflections on Capital in the 21 century (2015) (0)
4. From Old Europe to the New World (2014) (0)
14. Rethinking the Progressive Income Tax (2014) (0)
5. The Capital/Income Ratio over the Long Run (2014) (0)
Social Mobility and Redistributive Politr.cs (2011) (0)
The fraud of «academic autonomy» (2009) (0)
Piketty in the light of Pasinetti and Foley: Income distribution, economic growth and financial fragility * (2016) (0)
9. Inequality of Labor Income (2014) (0)
The Impact of the Boom and Bust on the Capital of Households in Ireland (2014) (0)
N ° 2021 / 01 Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy , Spain , Portugal and Ireland , 1953-2020 (0)
A global progressive tax on individual net worth would offer the best solution to the world’s spiralling levels of inequality (2014) (0)
Interview with Thomas Piketty: “One can Push History Out but It Immediately Comes in through the Window” (2016) (0)
About Capital, Power and Ideology (2021) (0)
Inequality , and Taxation : Reflections on Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2015) (0)
On the changing size of nobility under Ancien Régime , 1500-1789 ∗ (2017) (0)
The Great Shocks of the Twentieth Century Reconsidered (2015) (0)
The Genealogy of Belligerent Affects 1 (2018) (0)
15. A Global Tax on Capital (2014) (0)
7. Inequalityand Concentration: Preliminary Bearings (2014) (0)
Appendix D: Raw Data, Methodology, and Results of Estimates Based on Statistics from Employer Wage Declarations (1919–1938, 1947, and 1950–1998 Wages) (2018) (0)
Replication data for: About Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2016) (0)
WE LIVE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND THERE IS STILL NO PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION . DID CAPITALISM CHANGE ITS FACE ? (2015) (0)
Rules of the new game (2014) (0)
Philosophy in Review Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology." (2022) (0)
Inhaltsübersicht (2020) (0)
Schlusswort (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2014) (0)
Social Inequalities and the Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, 1999–2019 (2021) (0)
Attali et l’Université (2008) (0)
X K^*— *s a <5 * O/ Tec^ (2011) (0)
Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology." (2022) (0)
Contents in Detail (2014) (0)
Social Mobility & Corporate Development (1993) (0)
Appendix J: Raw Data, Methodology, and Results of Estimates Based on the Statistics Derived from Bequest Declarations (1902–1994 Bequests) (2018) (0)
Einleitung (2020) (0)
12. Thoughts on Taxation in the 21st Century (2011) (0)
1. Income and Output (2014) (0)
Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis (2020) (0)
12. Global Inequalityof Wealth in the Twenty- First Century (2014) (0)
1. The Measurement of Inequality and Its Evolution (2015) (0)
ANASTASIA DOROFEEVA-Faculty of International Tourism, Sport Business and Hospitality Industry FSBU of HPE Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation GLAMPING IN RUSSIA: RELEVANCE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS (2021) (0)
Response by Camille Landais, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez (2012) (0)
Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Reflections on <italic>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</italic> (2015) (0)
Giving European Democracy a Chance (2017) (0)
An Exceptional Dream: Aspiration as a Determinant of Self-Reported Happiness in the US (2013) (0)
The Evolution of the Level and Composition of Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century (2018) (0)
Appendix C: Complementary Data on Income Tax Legislation (2018) (0)
Toward a Political and Historical Economics (2015) (0)
Social Mobility and Corporate Development (1993) (0)
Book Review: Inequality: What Can be Done? (2016) (0)
The Priority: Enforcing Wealth (2014) (0)
2. Growth: Illusions and Realities (2014) (0)
A Response to François Bourguignon and Gilles Postel-Vinay (2003) (0)
3. The Metamorphoses of Capital (2014) (0)
Book Review (2003) (0)
A Reply to Referee 1 on “Inequality in Latina America: The Role of the Nature of Trade and Partners” (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)

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