Economics
Thomas Piketty Is Back With a 1,200-Page Guide to Abolishing Billionaires
- French economist’s last major book sold millions across world
- His latest outlines a political fix for gilded-age inequality
Thomas Piketty
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Thomas Piketty’s last blockbuster helped put inequality at the center of economic debates. Now he’s back with an even longer treatise that explains how governments should fix it –- by upending capitalism.