Last spring, you may remember, the French economist Thomas Piketty was all the rage in certain enlightened circles. His book Capital shot up to the number one spot on bestseller lists, and many ...

A book by a French economist on income inequality has become a pop sensation among Democratic liberal elites. Thomas Piketty‘s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, initially released in France, has an ...

To understand the contemporary debate about income inequality, it helps to be familiar with the deceptive rhetorical technique known as the motte-and-bailey. The motte-and-bailey involves a party ...

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 ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

The social architecture formed over more than three centuries of White rule has maintained South Africa’s position as the ...

Several studies by Thomas Piketty and his colleagues purporting to show that income inequality has increased dramatically in the United States over the last 60 years have influenced the public’s views ...

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, first published in 2013 and translated into English last year, forced an international focus on income and wealth inequality. President Obama ...

Capitalism has a public relations problem. While many will grudgingly admit that capitalism, the economic system based on private property and free trading, yields faster rates of economic growth, ...

We like stories of rags to riches, and believe our children ought to end up better off than we are. John Steinbeck famously wrote that socialism never took root in the United States because we’re all ...