EU politics
Thomas Piketty – The difficult return of the left-right divide
Is Le Pen on the way to electoral victory? Read Here Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick Wikimedia Commons / GFDL-1.2
Thomas Piketty
Economics
Thomas Piketty: Confronting war, rethinking sanctions
If an ordinary Russian loses half of his pension or salary because of the fall in the rouble and inflation caused by the sanctions, then there is no recourse, no court where he can complain. […]
Corruption
Thomas Piketty: Sanction the oligarchs, not the people
The Ukrainian crisis has revived an old debate, namely, how to effectively sanction a state like Russia? Let’s say it straight away: it is time to imagine a new type of sanction focused on the […]
EU politics
Thomas Piketty: Rightward shift, Macron’s fault
How can we explain the rightward shift of the French political landscape? Even if the question is complex and admits of multiple answers, there is little doubt that the experience of Macronism in power bears […]
Climate Crisis
Thomas Piketty: The new global inequalities
The new World Inequality Report stresses the hyperconcentration of wealth in all world regions as well as the very slow progress in the fight for gender and environmental equality Read here
Economics
Pavlina Tcherneva, Thomas Piketty – Democratising Work
Thomas Piketty highlights the value of a Job Guarantee. He also speaks to the importance of property rights and political power (as discussed at: https://youtu.be/NCjt027KCG4) At the Global Forum on Democratizing Work in November 2021.
EU politics
Thomas Piketty: Can the French presidential election be saved?
With less than five months to go before the first round, what can we expect from the French presidential election scheduled for next April? The question can be asked at two levels: that of the […]
Economics
The Great Debt Debate – Round One of The Fight Club: Piketty vs Hudson
As a way of continuing David Graeber’s challenging of society’s myths after his death, his widow Nika Dubrovsky has established both the “Museum of Care“, which curates David’s works, and debates his thought and those […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: Responding to Chinese challenge with democratic socialism
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) commemorates its 100th anniversary, Western countries are still struggling to define their attitude towards the Beijing regime. Let me say it straight away: the right answer lies in ending […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: The G7 legalizes the right to defraud
G7 plans to apply a minimum tax rate of 15% on the offshore profits of multinationals. Let us be clear: if we leave it at that, it is nothing more and nothing less than the […]