Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty serves as the professor at the Paris School of Economics and director of studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of numerous articles published in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Explorations in Economic History, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales; and is the author of a best-seller, Capital in the 21st Century. Piketty has accomplished major historical and theoretical work on the interplay between economic development, the distribution of income and wealth, and political conflict. He is the initiator of the recent literature on the long-run evolution of top income shares in national income. Piketty is also the codirector of the World Inequality Lab and the World of Inequality Database; and one of the initiators of the Manifesto for the democratization of Europe.