Thomas Piketty believes that restricting trade to protect domestic industries usually makes a country poorer overall.

Economist Thomas Piketty, writing for Le Monde (archive) on the success of Europe’s social democratic model and countering “the narrative of a ‘declining’ conti ...

COLUMN. To win the cultural and intellectual battle, Europe must staunchly defend its model, writes the economist in his column, dismantling the narrative of a 'declining' continent.

When French economist Thomas Piketty told a Lahore audience that extreme inequality is not a prerequisite for economic growth ...

Europe’s banking industry has been lobbying to scale down the digital euro project. In November, 14 of the region’s biggest ...

No doubt by now many readers of this publication have heard about – or maybe even read – an important new book by French economist Thomas Piketty,"Capital in the Twenty-First Century." This 700-page ...

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 ...

French economist Thomas Piketty’s hot-selling book, Capital in the 21st Century, has American liberals in a happy dither because it seems to provide a patina of theoretical credibility to the ...

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 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is facing a reckoning after the country's far right made historic gains in the first round of a snap parliamentary election. Thomas Piketty, bestselling French ...

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 ...