Thomas Piketty

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    Five minutes with Thomas Piketty: “We don’t need 19th century-style inequality to generate growth in the 21st century”

Five minutes with Thomas Piketty: “We don’t need 19th century-style inequality to generate growth in the 21st century”

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In an interview with the editors of our sister blogs, EUROPP – European Politics and Policy, and British Politics and Policy at LSE, Thomas Piketty discusses the rise in income and wealth inequality outlined in his book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and what policies should be adopted to prevent us returning to the kind of extreme levels of inequality experienced in […]

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    A global progressive tax on individual net worth would offer the best solution to the world’s spiralling levels of inequality

A global progressive tax on individual net worth would offer the best solution to the world’s spiralling levels of inequality

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The issue of inequality is one of the most salient in global politics. Thomas Piketty writes on the economic forces which have impacted upon inequality since the end of the First World War. He argues that with disparities in income and wealth rising substantially over recent decades, a global progressive tax on individual net worth would offer the best […]

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