Thomas Piketty: “We are in a situation similar to the one that led to the French Revolution”

PARIS – Thomas piketty (Clichy, France, 50) has achieved with the more than a thousand pages of his essays something that only a few economists have been able to do in history: to put the topic of his academic study at the center of political discussions and international agendas. This theme is inequality. Or, to put it another way, the long history of progress towards equality.