# Thomas Piketty (@thomas-piketty)

Thomas Piketty is a French economist whose work uses long-run tax, inheritance, national-account, and historical records to study income and wealth inequality. His profile at the Paris School of Economics documents continuing research on distribution across countries and periods. Capital in the Twenty-First Century brought this empirical program to a wide public.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Thomas Piketty's public record._

## Topics

- [Capital Dynamics](/@thomas-piketty/capital-dynamics.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Historical Inequality](/@thomas-piketty/historical-inequality.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Policy and Debate](/@thomas-piketty/policy-and-debate.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Capital, Inheritance, and Divergence](/@thomas-piketty/capital-inheritance-and-divergence.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Measuring Long-Run Inequality](/@thomas-piketty/measuring-long-run-inequality.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Taxation and Democratic Equality](/@thomas-piketty/taxation-and-democratic-equality.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/personnes/thomas-piketty/
- blog: https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/2025/04/cv-en.pdf
- blog: https://wid.world/methodology/
- blog: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674979857

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "thomas-piketty", "question": "…"}`.