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Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics.

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David Grusky believes that taxing the rich won’t do much to solve extreme income inequality in the United States, because it does nothing to correct the real culprit—the growing gap in pre-tax...
Stefanie Stantcheva, Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty

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