Thomas Piketty
Do We Need a Global Tax on Wealth?
Last year, a best-selling book made the case for heavily taxing the world's richest people. Last month, a 26-year-old MIT grad student used the same data to come to different conclusions.
Seattle Just Started a Nationwide Push for a $15 Minimum Wage
A policy that was once a left-wing pipe dream is set to become reality in the Emerald City, and a handful of liberal metropolises across the country are scrambling to keep pace.
Escaping Our Depressing Plutocracy with Thomas Piketty
Is the celebrity French economist reinventing the left with his controversial new book, or just hypnotizing us with fantasy while corruption gets worse than ever?
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