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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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The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective
Thomas Piketty,Emmanuel Saez +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the main findings and perspectives emerging from a collective research project on the dynamics of income and wealth distribution, and construct a high-quality, long- run, international database on income, wealth concentration, using historical tax statistics.
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Income Inequality in France 1901-98
Thomas Piketty,Thomas Piketty +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors document and explain trends in inequality in 20th century France using data from income tax returns (1915-98, wage tax returns and inheritance tax returns) to compute fully homogeneous, yearly estimates of income inequality, wage inequality and wealth inequality.
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Top incomes over the twentieth century: a contrast between continental European and English-speaking countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive historic overview of top income distribution over the last century, focusing on why top incomes shares fell markedly in the first half of the 20th century and why, more recently, there has been a striking difference between continental Europe and English-speaking OECD countries, like the UK, USA and Australia.
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Dualism and macroeconomic volatility
TL;DR: This paper developed a simple macroeconomic model that shows that combining capital market imperfections together with unequal access to investment opportunities across individuals can generate endogenous and permanent euctuations in aggregate GDP, investment, and interest rates.
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How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? A Historical and International Perspective
Thomas Piketty,Emmanuel Saez +1 more
TL;DR: Tax progressivity of the U.S. federal tax system at the top of the income distribution has declined dramatically since the 1960s as discussed by the authors, due primarily to a drop in corporate taxes and in estate and gift taxes combined with a sharp change in the composition of top incomes away from capital income and toward labor income.