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Thomas Piketty says don't blame foreign workers

2020-02-17 11:30:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Best-selling economist Thomas Piketty is back with a new book.

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VIDEO: Piketty warns of India inequality

2016-01-28 03:43:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

French economist Thomas Piketty says India must address inequality even as millions are lifted out of poverty.

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Thomas Piketty calls for investors to divest from fossil fuels ahead of climate talks

2015-11-16 05:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Thomas Piketty has called for investors to move their money out of fossil fuels ahead of landmark UN climate change talks. The French economist, along with ecological economist Tim Jackson, authors of the respective bestselling books Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Prosperity Without Growth: economics for a finite planet, said that investors should divest from a sector with a business model at odds with physical realities. In a letter to the Guardian, they wrote: This is a rare...

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Piketty and Stiglitz to advise Corbyn

2015-09-27 17:18:02| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Best-selling author Thomas Piketty and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz have agreed to join a new panel of economists advising Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

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