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Thomas Piketty

December 2023

  • Books 02nd

    From Piketty’s Capital to Hawking’s The Theory of Everything: can one book explain it all?

    Millennia-spanning takes on history, evolution and economics are booming. But who buys these ‘grand theory’ books? And do they actually read them?

November 2023

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    The great carbon divide
    Ban private jets to address climate crisis, says Thomas Piketty

    French economist says class inequality must be at centre of climate response and calls for progressive carbon taxes

October 2022

  • A group of activists protesting over global warming, with one woman holding a banner saying: There is No Planet B.

    ‘Stop setting things on fire’: nine great ideas to save the planet

    Writers and activists including Thomas Piketty, Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben suggest positive steps we can take now

December 2021

  • Rickshaws and a new BMW drive through the old town of Old Delhi, India

    Global inequality ‘as marked as it was at peak of western imperialism’

    Super-rich have grabbed an increasing share of the world’s income, economists’ study finds

August 2021

  • Pascal Soriot, chief executive of AstraZeneca

    The Guardian view on high pay: the fat cats are still there

    Editorial: Vast disparities in income may have lost some of their power to shock. But they remain a gross injustice

September 2020

  • Capital in the 21st century - film still

    Capital in the Twenty-First Century review – lavish look at a broken system

    Bling montages and shrewd commentary mark this adaptation of Thomas Piketty’s grim bestseller about inequality and excess

August 2020

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    Thomas Piketty refuses to censor latest book for sale in China

    French economist admired by Xi Jinping says he will not cut sections on inequality in China

May 2020

  • Best books of 2020 composite

    The best books and audiobooks of 2020 so far

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    Will coronavirus lead to fairer societies? Thomas Piketty explores the prospect

March 2020

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    Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty review – down the rabbit hole of bright abstractions

    The French economist’s weighty tome goes long on the clash of ideas, but is a little short on practicalities

February 2020

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    Thomas Piketty: Why France’s ‘rock star economist’ still wants to squeeze the rich

    Promoting his new book, the Frenchman is happy to talk Marx and money, but less forthcoming about a domestic violence claim that has resurfaced
  • France’s influential economist Thomas Piketty, author of the bestseller “Capital in the 21st Century” addresses a keynote speech during a symposium Les Entretiens du Tresor at the Economy Ministry in Paris on January 23, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ERIC PIERMONTERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images

    Book of the day
    Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty review – if inequality is illegitimate, why not reduce it?

    The celebrated French economist is back with an ambitious and optimistic work of social science, which argues that inequality always relies on ideology
  • Larry Elliott Economics editor

    Britain hit by serious case of the Brexit blues as wellbeing tumbles

    Larry Elliott Economics editor
    It is seldom good news for governing parties when people start to feel gloomy

January 2020

  • The London skyline as seen from Tower 42 with 'the Gherkin' (foreground) and Canary Wharf (background) prominent

    The Guardian view on Labour’s worker ownership plans: power to the people

    Editorial: Labour can outflank the Tories by rethinking the firm and who controls its surplus rather than just nationalising it

October 2019

  • Plastic workers sitting on stacks of coins to represent income inequality

    Gini index is a poor inequality measure

    Letter: Graham Sowter takes issue with a recent letter by Tim Worstall of the Adam Smith Institute that cited data suggesting that income inequality has decreased slightly in the UK in the last decade

September 2019

  • Books of the century so far

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    The 100 best books of the 21st century

    Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000
  • Elizabeth Warren

    The Guardian view on worker-ownership plans: firms for the many, not the few

    Editorial: The left across the world is embracing the idea that soaring wealth inequality can be tackled by giving employees a stake in their companies – and a say over the profits and decisions of their employers
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    Thomas Piketty's new War and Peace-sized book published on Thursday

    French economist’s Capital and Ideology expands on themes in Capital in the 21st Century, which sold 2m copies

July 2019

  • Boris Johnson

    The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s government: of the rich, for the rich?

    Editorial: If the Conservative party wants to win over large sections of the poor then it will have to tackle the damagingly high levels of inequality in the UK

December 2018

  • People's vote campaign on the Thames

    The Upside weekly report
    This newsletter will definitely not mention Brexit*

    The Upside weekly report does, however, look at ideas for making the EU more lovable again
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