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Thursday, May 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

I am Field Marshal thanks not to Allah, but you Narendra Modi: Pakistani General X

It turns out in Pakistan, one can fail at any kind of war with India and yet win accolades. Gen Pervez Musharraf lost the 1999 Kargil war yet became president. Gen Ayub Khan, who lost in 1965 as a Field Marshal, would be proud of me today.

No competition, have to deliver faster & reliably, says Amazon India V-P of operations

Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

All about Golden Dome, Trump’s $175 billion plan to shield America

Trump is not the first American president to propose such a defence system. Ronald Reagan proposed a space-centric Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, but it never took off.

Pakistan has a 7-year terror itch. Here’s a two-minus-one-front idea to cure it

Pakistani establishments and their proxies are prone to severe, predictable 7-year-itch. Each step up the escalation ladder buys India about this many years of deterrence on average.