Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics and Economic History at EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics. His research lies at the intersection of historical political economy and socio-economic history. He is the author of research articles published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, Explorations in Economic History, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales. He has done historical and theoretical work on the interplay between economic development, the distribution of income and wealth, and political conflict.

Thomas Piketty is also co-director of the World Inequality Lab and the World Inequality Database, and one of the initiators of the Manifesto for the democratization of Europe. He is the author of several books including Capital in the 21st Century (2014), Capital and Ideology (2020) and A Brief History of Equality (2022).