Xavier Rambla Sociologia

Have a look at this interview of the French economist Thomas Piketty in Foreign Affairs. Here you have a number of questions to focus on and discuss in the forum.

– Does the relationship between the rate of return of wealth and the rate of economic growth enact a causal mechanism of inequality? In this vein, what is the likely consequence of slow demographic growth?

– What share of wealth did the top 10% have in the ninenteenth century? Has this shared varied in the twentieth century? How?

– Why does Piketty think that national income taxes and a global wealth tax can tackle inequality? Do you think this proposal can counteract the causal mechanisms of inequality?

– In Piketty’s view, does the concentration of wealth affect democracy? How?