Thomas Piketty
b. 1971 · France · Economics, Political Economy
Capital in the Twenty-First Century put wealth inequality data at the centre of policy.
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- Karl Marx
1818 – 1883 · Political Economy, Philosophy
Capital in the Twenty-First Century measures the distributional claim Marx argued.
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