Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 5 September 2013 (book Le Capital au XXIe siècle (Capital in the Twenty-First Century)) chart Placidus Equal_H.
French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is professor (directeur détudes) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), professor at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial professor at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the best-selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which emphasises the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years. The book argues that the rate of capital return in developed countries is persistently greater than the rate of economic growth, and that this will cause wealth inequality to increase in the future. He considers that to be a problem, and to address it, he proposes redistribution through a progressive global tax on wealth. At the end of 2014, he refused to receive the French legion of honour. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Born: Fri May 07 1971 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Birthplace: Clichy , France