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Thomas Piketty, the French economist behind President Francois Hollande's plan to tax the wealthy has won acclaim in the US for his work on growing income inequality

A French economist becomes a rock star in the US for writing on the growing gap between rich and poor

Business, Economics and Jobs

Many in France are bemused by the sudden rise to fame in the US of French economist Thomas Piketty. Piketty’s analysis that rising income inequality is bad for the global economy just doesn’t seem so astonishingly new to the French.Many in France are bemused by the sudden rise to fame in the US of French economist Thomas Piketty. Piketty’s analysis that rising income inequality is bad for the global economy just doesn’t seem so astonishingly new to the French.

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