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Politicians in France reacted to heated comments from the country’s richest man after Arnault called the Zucman tax a way to "destroy the French economy".

PM could raise ‘tens of billions’ while positioning Britain as progressive, say Thomas Piketty and others

Thomas Piketty’s Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a little book that addresses an issue of great significance: is the social inequality we observe every day natural?

A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen…

The author of Capital returns with a short book on inequality that asks big questions

Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins recently revealed the party is looking once again at its tax policy, including a possible wealth tax or a “capital income tax” (CIT).

The New Popular Front will improve ordinary people’s lives – and it’s an effective, economically sound alternative to the far right, say authors Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty

Research found that it was socioeconomic factors that determined the switch to the right for rural voters, rather than xenophobia.

Economist and author Phil Magness debunks a recent New York Times piece and shoddy academic work about the rich and their taxes.