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Thomas Piketty
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Thomas Piketty is a French male author born on May 7, 1971. He has published 55 works, including *Une histoire du conflit politique*, *Pour un traité de démocratisation de l'Europe*, *Agir face aux dérèglements du monde*, *World Inequality Report 2022*, and *World inequality report 2018*. Crossref records five of his works.
Piketty has stated that "Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts – and that is a very good thing." He has also noted that "the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics." His name appears in 659 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1971
- Works
- 55
Top works
- Une histoire du conflit politique
- Pour un traité de démocratisation de l'Europe
- Agir face aux dérèglements du monde
- World Inequality Report 2022
- World inequality report 2018
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 250
- Total plays
- 15,658
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 163,234x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,040x
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 59,891x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,063x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,326x
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Quotes
- “We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires are consuming politicians, others consume reporters, and some consume academics.”
- “Modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have made it possible to avoid the Marxist apocalypse but have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality—or in any case not as much as one might have imagined in the optimistic decades following World War II.”
- “When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.”
- “Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts – and that is a very good thing.”
- “Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of acquiring the appearance of scientificity without having to answer the far more complex questions posed by the world we live in.”
- “To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Piketty ( French: [tɔmɑ pikɛti]; born 7 May 1971) is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Piketty's work focuses on public economics, in particular income and wealth inequality. 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. Piketty proposes improving the education systems and considers diffusion of knowledge, diffusion of skills, diffusion of idea of productivity as the main mechanism that will lead to lower inequality. In 2019, his book Capital and Ideology was published, which focuses on income inequality in various societies in history. His 2022 A Brief History of Equality is a much shorter book about wealth redistribution intended for a target audience of citizens instead of economists.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas Piketty” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.