A public lecture by French political economist Thomas Piketty, “Is Increasing Inequality Inevitable? Reflections on Capital in the 21st Century,” delivered at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday, was a ...

Hundreds filled the University of Massachusetts’ Student Union Ballroom past capacity on Thursday to hear a lecture by French economist Thomas Piketty. Seats were filled, and the walls were lined with ...

With a flurry of exclamation points and curt rebuttals, Thomas Piketty, who rocketed to stardom last year with his treatise on inequality, told a German newspaper that the Germans are being ...

We’ve all been saying it wrong: It’s “Peek-et-tee,” says The New Yorker, which got it right from the horse’s (French) mouth. The Talk of the Town piece is about a bunch of economists meeting Thomas ...

The French economist Thomas Piketty’s visit to South Africa began with some bad luck. Because he did not have two blank pages in his passport, he was not allowed to board his flight from Paris, and he ...

WASHINGTON — Thomas Piketty, who rocketed to stardom last year with his treatise on inequality, told a German newspaper that the Germans are being hypocritical in the way they’re treating Greece. A ...

Thomas Piketty lectured on his 2013 bestseller, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” last Friday in Memorial Auditorium. “Capital” explores wealth and income inequality in U.S. and western European ...