Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty ( born May 7, 1971 in Clichy ) is a French economist and professor at the Paris School of Economics, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He is a world renowned researcher on income distribution and social inequality.

Career

Piketty began to study at the École Normale Supérieure with 18 economy. At 22 he received his doctorate with a thesis on redistribution, which he had written to the ENS and the London School of Economics. From 1993 to 1995 he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1995 he became a member of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS ) and 2000 Director of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( EHESS ).

Research

Piketty is particularly concerned with economic inequality. Piketty showed by using the analysis of the income taxes that in France after the Second World War decreased income inequality. He attributes this to the increase in tax progression in France in the former phase.

It also provides comparative research in other industrialized nations on social inequality, which come into cooperation, especially with Emmanuel Saez and Anthony Atkinson to the conclusion that, especially in English speaking countries, after a decline of economic inequality between the 1940s and 1970s, the social inequality increases again.

That income inequality increased, explained by Piketty also a part of the financial crisis from 2007., If the financial sector is growing too strong, so promotes the income gap, because corresponding capital gains mainly Understanding benefit the highest income, says Piketty.

Awards

• 2002: Prix du meilleur jeune économiste de France
• 2013: Yrjö - Jahnsson price

Writings

• Le Capital XXIe au siècle, Le Seuil, Paris, 2013, ISBN 9782021082289
• Pour une révolution fiscale: Un Impôt sur ​​le Revenu pour le XXIème Siècle ( with Camille Landais and Emmanuel Saez ), Le Seuil, 2011 ISBN 2-02-103941-2 (Website)
• Introduction a la theory de la redistribution of richesses, ECONOMICA 1999, ISBN 2-7178-2653- X
• L' économie the inégalités, Editions La Découverte 2008, ISBN 2-7071-5608-6
• Les Hauts en France au XXe siècle revenus: Intégralités et redistribution, 1901-1998, Hachette Littératures 2006, ISBN 2-01-279292-8

English

• Capital in the Twenty - First Century, Harvard University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0674430006 Summary, more information
• With A. Atkinson and E. Saez: Top Incomes in the Long Run of History (PDF file, 1.4 MB)
• With A. Atkinson: Top incomes over the twentieth century: a contrast in between european and english - speaking countries, Oxford, OUP, 2007 ISBN 0-19-928688-4
• With A. Atkinson: Top Incomes - A Global Perspective, Oxford, OUP, 2010 ISBN