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Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty is director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and professor at the Paris School of Economics / Paris School of Economics.

Thomas Piketty is director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and professor at the Paris School of Economics / Paris School of Economics. He has published numerous research articles in international journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Explorations in Economic History, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales. He is the author of historical and theoretical works devoted to the relationship between economic development, distribution of wealth and political conflict. This work has led to highlighting the importance of political, social and fiscal institutions in the historical dynamics of the distribution of wealth. Thomas Piketty is also co-director of the World Inequality Lab and the World Inequality Database , and one of the initiators of theManifesto for the democratization of Europe . He is the author of the international bestsellers " Capital in the 21st Century " (2013) and " Capital and ideology " (2019).