Articles by Thomas Piketty

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(Français) Pour une Europe ouverte
Thomas Piketty – Liberation, 21 Sep 2015

Le drame des réfugiés est l’occasion pour les Européens de relancer l’économie du continent. L’attitude de l’Allemagne en fait un modèle à suivre.

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In Migrants/Refugees Crisis, a Chance to Revitalize Europe’s Economy
Thomas Piketty – Boston Globe, 21 Sep 2015

The plight of the refugees is an opportunity for Europeans to jump-start the continent’s economy. Germany’s attitude is a model to follow.

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Thomas Piketty: “Germany Has Never Repaid its Debts. It Has No Standing to Lecture Greece or Other Nations”
Thomas Piketty, Die Zeit – The Wire, 13 Jul 2015

8 Jul 2015 – “… Germany is really the single best example of a country that, throughout its history, has never repaid its external debt. Neither after the First nor the Second World War. However, it has frequently made other nations pay up, such as after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, when it demanded massive reparations from France and indeed received them. The French state suffered for decades under this debt. The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.”

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A Practical Vision of a More Equal Society
Thomas Piketty – The New York Review of Books, 15 Jun 2015

Anthony Atkinson occupies a unique place among economists. During the past half-century, in defiance of prevailing trends, he managed to place the question of inequality at the center of his work while demonstrating that economics is first and foremost a social and moral science. In his new book, Inequality: What Can Be Done?—more personal than his previous ones and wholly focused on a plan of action—he provides us with the broad outlines of a new radical reformism.

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century [e-book]
Thomas Piketty – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2014

Download made possible by Wallace Patrick Farias.

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BANKS’ RECORD PROFITS ARE A POLITICAL MATTER
Thomas Piketty - Libération, 5 Mar 2010

So BNP Paribas, the largest French and European bank, has just announced 8 billion euros of profit for 2009, tying its 2007 record. Some are already crowing: after all, isn’t it better to have healthy rather than failing banks? Certainly. However, it is well worth the attempt to understand where these profits come from. The […]

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(FRENCH) PROFITS RECORDS DES BANQUES : UNE AFFAIRE POLITIQUE
Thomas Piketty - Libération, 5 Mar 2010

Ainsi donc BNP Paribas, première banque française et européenne, vient d’annoncer 8 milliards d’euros de bénéfices pour l’année 2009, renouant avec son record de 2007. Certains poussent déjà des cocoricos : après tout, n’est-il pas préférable d’avoir des banques bien portantes plutôt qu’en faillite ? Certes. Mais il n’est pas inutile de tenter de comprendre […]

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