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Thomas Piketty

French economist

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Documented in Capital in the Twenty-First Century how wealth concentrates when returns to capital exceed growth, and proposes steeply progressive and wealth taxes.

Thomas Piketty sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, leaning progressive on culture and leaning secular on religion. The profile is close to the middle on technology and interventionism.

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Where Thomas Piketty sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyCentered on technology
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Thomas Piketty

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Political views closest to Thomas Piketty

EurocommunismA communism that accepts elections and pluralism, breaking with Soviet orthodoxy in the…99%Social democracyKeeps a market economy but adds strong public services, unions and progressive taxes to…99%Modern monetary theoryArgues that governments issuing their own currency can spend to reach full employment,…99%Market socialismCombines worker or public ownership of firms with markets and competition.99%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Gobierno de Chile, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.