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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

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.