French economist Thomas Piketty’s big, important book has stirred many pots. Three months ago, a mention at dinner parties drew blank stares. Now Capital in the 21st Century is the Game of Thrones of ...

In 2014, an unusual book topped bestseller lists around the world: Capital in the Twenty-first Century, an 816-page scholarly tome by the French economist Thomas Piketty that examined the massive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the damage big government does, especially to education. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21 st Century is by far the ...

For all the influence economics is supposed to have on policy and the character of our societies, not many economics professors make any impression on public consciousness. Fewer still attain Thomas ...

While reading Brooke Jarvis’s fascinating New Yorker essay about issues associated with the ending—rather than the extending—of life, I came across this passage: “Of all the forms of inequality,” ...

As the coronavirus pandemic ravages the globe and exposes dysfunction in Western capitalist democracies, intellectuals are intoning in near unison: “Government is back. The Reagan-Thatcher revolution ...

Wednesday night, on the elevator down to the 400-seat auditorium at the City University of New York Graduate Center, one middle-aged man who looked like an economist bragged to a middle-aged couple ...

Once in a great while, a heavy academic tome dominates for a time the policy debate and, despite bristling with footnotes, shows up on the best-seller list. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the ...

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