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About Thomas Piketty

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 (EHESS), 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.

Thomas Piketty writes about Income distribution, History, Equality, Economic policy, Labor economics, and Economic history. Their best-known work is Le capital au XXIe siècle.

On FindMyTBR we track 13 books by Thomas Piketty, 13 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Brief History of Equality, Capital et Idéologie, and Capital in the Twenty First Century. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.