Thomas Piketty

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Thomas Piketty is a French economist renowned for his influential work on income and wealth inequality, particularly through his book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century."

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instanceOf economist
human
academicDegree PhD in economics
awardReceived Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award NERFINISHED
Yrjö Jahnsson Award NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1971-05-07
doctoralAdvisor Roger Guesnerie NERFINISHED
educatedAt London School of Economics
École normale supérieure NERFINISHED
employer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paris School of Economics NERFINISHED
École des hautes études en sciences sociales NERFINISHED
familyName Piketty NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork economic history
economics
income inequality
political economy
wealth inequality
genre economic non-fiction
political economy literature
givenName Thomas NERFINISHED
hasInfluenced public debate on inequality in the 21st century
influencedBy Anthony Atkinson NERFINISHED
Karl Marx
Simon Kuznets NERFINISHED
knownFor advocacy of progressive taxation
empirical research on income inequality
empirical research on wealth inequality
historical data on top incomes
proposal of global wealth tax
languageOfWorkOrName English
French
movement heterodox economics
name Thomas Piketty NERFINISHED
notableWork Capital et Idéologie NERFINISHED
Capital in the Twenty-First Century NERFINISHED
Le Capital au XXIe siècle NERFINISHED
Pour une révolution fiscale NERFINISHED
Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century NERFINISHED
occupation economist
university professor
placeOfBirth Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France NERFINISHED
positionHeld director at Paris School of Economics
director of studies at École des hautes études en sciences sociales
researchFocus long-run evolution of income distribution
long-run evolution of wealth distribution
taxation of income and wealth
thesisTitle Essais sur la théorie de la redistribution des richesses
thesisYear 1993

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Emmanuel Saez coAuthor Thomas Piketty
Farrar, Straus and Giroux hasPublished Thomas Piketty
Yrjö Jahnsson Award notableRecipient Thomas Piketty