Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty (born 7 May 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is professor (directeur d'études) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of the best selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which emphasizes the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years. The book argues that the rate of capital return in developed countries is persistently greater than the rate of economic growth, and that this will cause wealth inequality to increase in the future. To address this problem, he proposes redistribution through a global tax on wealth.

Links

 * Personal page of Thomas Piketty at the Paris School of Economics


 * Articles, essays and reviews
 * "Anti-Piketty Paper Is #1 Download" by Thomas E. Woods Jr., January 2015
 * Gold and Economic Inequality by Mark Thornton, July 2015
 * "The Demolition of Piketty-ism" by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, July 2014
 * "Thomas Piketty and Mises’s ‘The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality’" by Andrew B. Wilson, July 2014
 * Inequality, Free Markets, and Crashes by Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Taleb, June 2014
 * "End Central Banking, End 'Unearned' Wealth Inequality" by David Howden, June 2014
 * "Forbes Matches Bloomberg for Incoherence on Piketty" by Jeff Deist, June 2014
 * What Else Piketty Says — on Inflation, Canada, and Democracy by Tomas Salamanca, May 2014
 * Piketty’s Garden of Envy by Theodore Dalrymple, May 2014
 * "Twaddle or Scholarship?" by John P. Cochran, May 2014
 * "Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Capital" by Hunter Lewis & Peter G. Klein, April 2014 (republished at Mises.ca here)
 * Piketty’s Gold? by Mises Canada, April 2014
 * Higher Taxes Don’t Make Capitalism “Work Better” by James E. Miller, April 2014
 * by George Reisman
 * "Turning Piketty Right Side Up", June 2014 (audio version) (republished at Mises.ca here)
 * Piketty’s Capital: Wrong Theory Destructive Program, August 2014
 * by Ryan McMaken
 * "Hendrickson Dissects Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century", May 2015
 * "George Reisman's Monograph on Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'", August 2014
 * by Per Bylund
 * "Disrupting Economics?", June 2014
 * "The Market on Piketty", June 2014
 * by Randall G. Holcombe
 * "Piketty on Inequality", May 2014
 * "Piketty's Capital and Actual Capital", May 2014
 * by Peter G. Klein
 * "Piketty and Capital", April 2014
 * "A Note on 'Human Capital'", May 2014
 * by Hunter Lewis
 * "Thomas Piketty's Sensational New Book", April 2014
 * "Thomas Piketty’s Improbable Data", May 2014
 * by Robert P. Murphy
 * Compton and Long Beach Togetha on This One: Piketty Has No Clue About Capital, April 2014
 * DeLong Damns Piketty With Faint Praise, May 2014
 * Marginal *Physical* Product of Capital Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient For Interest, May 2014
 * "Larry Summers on Piketty: Low Bar for Nobel Prizes These Days" May 2014 (excerpt on ConsultingbyRPM blog)
 * Shocking Quotes from Thomas Piketty, May 2014
 * Are You Kidding Me? Now Allegations That Piketty Fudged His Wealth Data, May 24th, 2014
 * The Weak Defense of Piketty, May 2014
 * Don’t Trust Piketty or Krugman on Inequality Evidence, May 2014
 * Shouldn’t EVERY Factor of Production Get Paid Its Marginal Product?, June 2014
 * The Quick Summary of My Paper (With Magness) on Piketty, January 2015
 * A *Defender* of Piketty Damns With Faint Praise, January 2015
 * Solving the Great Piketty Minimum Wage History Mystery, February 2015


 * Other media
 * "Thomas Piketty Refuted" podcast with Tom Woods and Bob Murphy, May 2014 (Mises Media) (YouTube)
 * "Piketty Taken Down for Good?" podcast with Tom Woods and Phillip Magness, January 2015 (YouTube)
 * Inequality and Capital video by Mark Thornton, April 2014
 * Common Sense on Inequality video by Peter G. Klein, April 2014
 * Power Trading Radio interview with Peter G. Klein, May 2014
 * Debunking Piketty’s Capital interview with George Reisman, August 2014