
He is the author of the best-selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which emphasises the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years. Piketty's work focuses on public economics, in particular income and wealth inequality. Thomas Piketty ( French: born ) is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. Prix du meilleur jeune économiste de France (2002)

Medalla Rectoral, Universidad de Chile (2015)

Honorary Doctorate, University of Johannesburg (2015) Simon Kuznets, Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Anthony Atkinson School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (joint PhD)

School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
