French economist Thomas Piketty.
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Famend French creator and economist Thomas Piketty mentioned South Africa’s drastic ranges of inequality warranted severe consideration of revolutionary interventions, whether or not the federal government plans to introduce a primary revenue grant or not.
On Monday evening, Piketty addressed a digital panel organised by the College of Witwatersrand Faculty of Economics and Finance, in celebration of a century of educating economics on the college.
The occasion comes after the discharge of Piketty’s newest ebook, titled A Temporary Historical past of Equality. His earlier books, together with Capital and Ideology in 2020, in addition to Capital within the Twenty-first Century and The Economics of Inequality in 2017, have been acclaimed worldwide for his or her examination of wealth focus and inequality.
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