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Thomas Piketty (; born on 7 May 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is a professor (directeur d'études) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), professor at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial professor at the London School of Economics new International Inequalities Institute.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thomas Piketty joins LSE as Centennial Professor )〕 He is the author of the best-selling book ''Capital in the Twenty-First Century'' (2013),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Paris School of Economics )〕 which emphasises the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years. The book argues that the rate of capital return in developed countries is persistently greater than the rate of economic growth, and that this will cause wealth inequality to increase in the future. He considers that to be a problem, and to address it, he proposes redistribution through a progressive global tax on wealth. == Biography == Piketty was born on 7 May 1971, in the Parisian suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine. His parents had been involved with a Trotskyite group and the May 1968 protests in Paris, but they had moved away from this political position before Piketty was born, and a visit to the Soviet Union in 1991 was enough to make him a firm "believe() in capitalism, private property, the market". Piketty gained a C-stream (scientific) Baccalauréat, and after taking scientific preparatory classes, he entered the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) at the age of 18, where he studied mathematics and economics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/en/cv-en )〕 At the age of 22, Piketty was awarded his PhD for a thesis on wealth redistribution, which he wrote at the EHESS and the London School of Economics under Roger Guesnerie〔John Cassidy, ("Forces of Divergence" ), ''The New Yorker'', 31 March 2014.〕 and winning the French Economics Association's award for the best thesis of the year. After earning his PhD, Piketty taught from 1993 to 1995 as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1995, he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as a researcher, and in 2000 he became a professor (directeur d'études) at EHESS.〔 Piketty won the 2002 prize for the best young economist in France, and according to a list dated 11 November 2003, he is a member of the scientific orientation board of the association , founded by Michel Rocard and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. In 2006, Piketty became the first head of the Paris School of Economics, which he helped set up. He left after a few months to serve as an economic advisor to Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal during the French presidential campaign. Piketty resumed teaching at the EHESS and Paris School of Economics in 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Paris School of Economics )〕 He was for a time the partner of the socialist politician Aurélie Filippetti who, in 2009, made an official complaint against Piketty for domestic violence;〔'Plainte Filippetti / Piketty : domaine public ?', ''Arrêts sur images du 3 mars 2009'' ()〕 she subsequently dropped the charges and reconciled with Piketty after he apologised to her.〔("Violences conjugales : classement sans suite de l'enquête visant Thomas Piketty après une plainte d'Aurélie Filippetti" ), ''Le Parisien'' (24 September 2009).〕〔« Violences conjugales: classement sans suite de l'enquête visant Thomas Piketty après une plainte d'Aurélie Filippetti » (); 〕 He is a columnist for the French newspaper ''Libération'', and occasionally writes op-eds for ''Le Monde''. In April 2012, Piketty co-authored along with 42 colleagues an open letter in support of then-PS candidate for the French presidency François Hollande. Hollande won the contest against the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in May of that year. Piketty was unimpressed by Hollande's tenure, later describing him as "hopeless"."〔 In 2013, Piketty won the biennial Yrjö Jahnsson Award, for the economist under age 45 who has "made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to the study of economics in Europe."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.yjs.fi/en/seminars-and-international-contacts/yrjo-jahnsson-award-in-economics/ )〕 In January 2015, he rejected the French Legion of Honour order, stating that he refused the nomination because he did not think it was the government's role to decide who is honourable.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Piketty rejects Légion d'Honneur award )〕 On the 2 October 2015 Thomas Piketty received an honorary doctorate from the University of Johannesburg and on the 3 October 2015 he delivered the 13th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture at the University of Johannesburg. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Piketty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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