French economist Thomas Piketty’s magnum opus, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, has inspired volumes of commentary, much of it favorable. Piketty has done a great service in compiling data that ...

Last week, when Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the 21st Century was racing to the top of The New York Times' bestseller list, I set out to read the conservative criticisms of the economist behind ...

Inequality may be the economic issue of the moment, but the theme has long preoccupied economists. In 1919, Irving Fisher, a giant in early 20th-century economics, warned of “a bitter struggle over ...

More about the important issue of wealth distribution across America’s population, also raised by Piketty’s book, will be forthcoming in Makin’s upcoming AEI study. The oddest thing about the huge ...

In his new and unlikely bestseller, French economist Thomas Piketty describes the rise of "arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities" that pose a threat to democratic institutions around the globe. He ...

French economist Thomas Piketty stands by his best-selling bookCapital in the Twenty-First Century, and says the Financial Times published a scathing analysis questioning the data without giving him ...

Dubbed the “rock-star economist,” France’s Thomas Piketty has topped the Amazon.com bestseller list with the surprise blockbuster book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” which argues that because ...

But one economic thinker, more than any other, has allowed his beliefs to pervade the corridors of power and shape the agenda ...

Editor's Note: Thomas Piketty acknowledges that some level of inequality is necessary. But what we have in America today -- when the bottom 50 percent of the population owns only 2 percent of the ...

Editor's Note: Thomas Piketty is famous in America for predicting continuing economic inequality, and if you want to get wonky, for a simple formula (return > growth) that explains the persistence of ...

THE French economist Thomas Piketty has been making waves in the US since his 700-page tome on capitalism rocketed to the top of the US best-seller chart. Capital in the 21st Century was published in ...