Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, politics, and human-interest stories. With the Keynes/Hazlitt precedent in mind, I decided to give ...

But one economic thinker, more than any other, has allowed his beliefs to pervade the corridors of power and shape the agenda ...

Editor's Note: Thomas Piketty acknowledges that some level of inequality is necessary. But what we have in America today -- when the bottom 50 percent of the population owns only 2 percent of the ...

Usually, the Friday afternoon before Memorial Day is the perfect time for a political news dump. The Financial Times used it to drop a major investigation into the data behind Thomas Piketty’s hit ...

There are many reasons why French academic Thomas Piketty’s 685-page tome, “Capital in the 21st Century,” has vaulted to the top of the Amazon.com best seller list and is being discussed with equal ...

Piketty's one of the biggest names in economics at the moment, and he's giving a masterclass at the London School of Economics. Only 15 lucky PhD students will be selected for the six-month class. To ...

Thomas Piketty is very much a VIP of NOW. He looks at our world, and searches for ways of making it a fairer, better and more efficient place by reorganising wealth. Wealth is there. It just needs to ...

Editor's Note: Thomas Piketty is famous in America for predicting continuing economic inequality, and if you want to get wonky, for a simple formula (return > growth) that explains the persistence of ...

“Piketty findings undercut by errors,” the Financial Times headline screamed. And the story itself, by Chris Giles, who did the investigation, was quick to draw an odious comparison: The data ...

Thomas Piketty's new book on capital is getting a lot of attention. Much of it, it has to be said from the usual suspects, those who rather drool over the thought of being able to impose wealth taxes.

A year after the English-language edition of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" dominated American bestseller lists, Thomas Piketty is trying to cover his retreat with an article aimed at academic ...

French economist Thomas Piketty stands by his best-selling bookCapital in the Twenty-First Century, and says the Financial Times published a scathing analysis questioning the data without giving him ...