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Thomas Piketty: 'You have to make the richest people pay more' | UpFront
As most indicators continue to show the gap between the rich and the rest getting bigger, renowned author and economist Thomas Piketty’s latest book strikes an optimistic note. In A Brief History of Equality, Piketty argues that the world is broadly on the right track to reducing socioeconomic inequality. “There’s a long run of social demand for equality that is inseparable from modernity,” he says….