@thomaspiketty.bsky.social
Professor at EHESS & PSE
Co-Director, World Inequality Lab
inequalitylab.world | WID.world
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/
@thomaspiketty.bsky.socialLe mouvement lycéen et étudiant signe le crépuscule du macronisme: les jeunes veulent se former et accéder aux études, et un pouvoir élitiste leur répond en réduisant de 20% le budget par étudiant entre 2017 et 2026 et en gérant la pénurie avec un algorithme opaque (Parcoursup)
@wid.worldReposted by @thomaspiketty.bsky.socialWhat inheritance tax rates do people consider appropriate?
What drives these preferences: fairness concerns, self-interest, or government fiscal needs?
To explore these questions, @edisonjakurti.bsky.social draws on data from 8,106 individuals across 11 European countries wid.world/news-article...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.socialAvec Julia Cagé, Lucas Chancel et plus de 1500 chercheurs dans le monde, nous demandons que la France rejoigne l'Afrique du Sud, le Brésil, l'Espagne, la Norvège et l'Allemagne et soutienne aux Nations Unies la création d'un "GIEC des inégalités" www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.socialBefore the UN general assembly next week, I joined 1,500+ academics from 100+countries in calling on global leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC, as recommended by the G20 Committe on Inequality led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social last year. Please share.
@thomaspiketty.bsky.socialFollowing a summer marked by extreme events and destruction, public awareness may begin to shift thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/r...
@wid.worldReposted by @thomaspiketty.bsky.socialNew study by @simonbriole.bsky.social and @camillesalesse.bsky.social shows that air pollution widens educational inequalities: up to 25% of the achievement
gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students
in high school in France can be explained by it.
Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
@wid.worldReposted by @thomaspiketty.bsky.socialWe are now calling world leaders and governments to support the urgent establishment of the International Panel on Inequality (IPI) alongside @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social and 600+ economists and inequality experts www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.socialThe problem is not too little growth, but the wrong kind. What matters is not how much we grow, but what we grow — and for whom. Our response in @financialtimes.com to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Bottom line: economic and climate justice require rethinking growth, not necessarily abandoning it.
@thomaspiketty.bsky.socialI am among the more than 350 signatories who have put their names to support the “roadmap for eradicating poverty beyond growth”. Read the opinion piece: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.socialWhat would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries?
The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport.
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@thomaspiketty.bsky.socialColonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]
