Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty is a French economist and professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He is also an associate chair at the Paris School of Economics and a Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. Piketty is renowned for his research in public economics, with a specific focus on income and wealth inequality. His most notable work is the best-selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which explores the historical trends of wealth concentration and distribution. Piketty argues that the persistent higher rate of capital return compared to economic growth will lead to increasing wealth inequality, proposing educational improvements and knowledge diffusion as potential solutions.