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Thomas Piketty
Researcher at Paris School of Economics
Publications - 264
Citations - 40732
Thomas Piketty is an academic researcher from Paris School of Economics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Economic inequality & Income distribution. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 251 publications receiving 36227 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Piketty include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Economic Policy Institute.
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Existence of fair allocations in economies with production
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple Spence-Mirrlees-like condition (demanding that the less productive jobs are also marginally the harder in terms of well-being) is proposed, under which it is proved that allocations satisfying Pareto-optimality and equal-liberty always exist.
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Le capital au 21e siècle
TL;DR: Fruit de quinze ans de recherches, cette etude, la plus ambitieuse jamais entreprise sur cette question, s'appuie sur des donnees historiques et comparatives bien plus vastes que tous les travaux anterieurs as mentioned in this paper.
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Inequality and Redistribution in France, 1990-2018: Evidence from Post-Tax Distributional National Accounts (DINA)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a post-tax distributional national accounts (DINA) for France, which combines national accounts, tax and survey data in a comprehensive and consistent manner to build homogenous annual series on the post-Tax, post-transfer distribution of national income by percentiles over the 1990-2018 period, with detailed breakdown by age, tax, and transfer categories.
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Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries, 1700-2010
Thomas Piketty,Gabriel Zucman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used 1970-2010 national balance sheets of the top eight developed economies (U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy) to investigate how the aggregate wealth-to-income ratios evolve in the long run and why.
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The Economics of Rising Inequalities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the extent to which rising inequalities are the mechanical consequence of changes in economic fundamentals (such as changes in technological or demographic parameters), and to what extent they are the contingent consequences of country-specific and time-specific changes in institutions.