Thomas Piketty
latest news & developmentsThomas Piketty: Direct wealth distribution needed to fix SA’s extreme inequality
The renowned French economist noted that the country has made little progress towards closing the inequality gap, despite efforts to redistribute income
South Africa must flatten the inequality curve
We cannot return to the pre-coronavirus crisis of unemployment, inequality and poverty. There is a moral incentive for the rich to give up some of their wealth and for the…
Obama to deliver 2018 Mandela lecture
The annual lecture will this year be held on July 17, the day before what would have been Mandela’s 100th birthday
Restore hope to SA’s democracy
A better future is possible – but only if the scourge of inequality is banished
Letters to the editor: October 23 to 29 2015
Readers write in about farm workers, and poverty in Brics.
SA unpicks Piketty’s Brazil knot
French economist Thomas Piketty says we should follow the country’s lead on a minimum wage, but we may have already done so.
Who owns what in South Africa?
Thomas Piketty’s message about a global wealth tax found fertile ground in South Africa.
The economy won’t even the odds
Thomas Piketty will deliver the Nelson Mandela annual lecture on Thursday October 3, which will serve to highlight the issue of inequality in SA.