Thomas Piketty

A protester displays a banner during a left-wing May Day demonstration, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Vienna, Austria, May 1, 2020.

Economist Thomas Piketty: Pandemic exposes the ‘violence of social inequality’

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Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital and Ideology,” which came out in March, examines the history of policies and political systems that have sustained economic inequality and how the world might move toward a fairer economic system. His message is prescient at a time when the pandemic has thrown the global economy into disarray.

Thomas Piketty, the French economist behind President Francois Hollande's plan to tax the wealthy has won acclaim in the US for his work on growing income inequality

A French economist becomes a rock star in the US for writing on the growing gap between rich and poor