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Monday, December 22, 2025
TopicThomas Piketty

Topic: Thomas Piketty

Telangana caste survey: Amid BJP barbs, Piketty ‘happy to be part of effort to address inequalities’

The economist tells ThePrint that Indian inequalities are a mixture of ancient features & modern money-based inequalities, including crony capitalism, which the current govt has encouraged.

Thomas Piketty argues for a wealth tax in India. Govt economists warn of ‘unintended consequences’ 

Piketty was speaking at an event hosted by Delhi School of Economics (DSE) and Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), an autonomous policy research institute.

Disaster of communism overshadowed damage done by slavery and colonialism

In Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty writes on the ‘naturalisation’ of disparity by the elites and how history proves them wrong.

What Abhijit Banerjee and Thomas Piketty missed in their study of Indian voter behaviour

The celebrated economists have argued Indian voters vote for caste and religious issues, and not for social spending.

Piketty jumps the shark with new book, attempts to set out a manifesto for modern Left

Picketty's book will make you believe anything is possible — even 'participatory socialism'. The impracticality detracts from his economical analysis.

Thomas Piketty explains why he is helping Rahul Gandhi with minimum income guarantee

French economist defends Congress' minimum income guarantee scheme, says India's poor have been 'badly treated by the country's elite'.

Growth with inequality

While GDP growth has been discussed there has been a lack of debate about a recent paper about sharply growing inequality in India.

On Camera

Violence over Osman Hadi is about Islamist Bangladesh. India-baiting is a distraction

The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.