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Tuesday, September 23, 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

Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

After watching the most discussed series on Netflix, I was planning to write an asterisk-heavy column. As a tribute to the asterisks in its...

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.