Thomas Piketty

Institution: Paris School of Economics

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/

First Publication: 1993

Most Recent: 2024

RePEc ID: ppi17 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	2.69	6.86	1.01	0.34	10.90	96%
Last 10 Years	9.69	8.21	1.01	0.67	19.58	97%
All Time	75.62	23.68	8.75	0.67	108.71	99%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 34

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 40.86

Publications (34)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2024	Predistribution versus Redistribution: Evidence from France and the United States	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics	A	5
2023	Rethinking capital and wealth taxation	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	C	3
2022	Brahmin Left Versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948–2020	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	3
2022	China Targets Hong Kong Wealth Gap, Housing Woes After Political Purge	World Bank Economic Review	B	2
2021	The Changing Shape of Global Inequality 1820–2000; Exploring a New Dataset	Journal of the European Economic Association	A	2
2021	Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, and Vietnam and comparisons with British colonies 1920–1960	Journal of Development Economics	A	3
2021	Accounting for Wealth-Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates, and Simulations for France	Journal of the European Economic Association	A	3
2021	Correction to: Accounting for Wealth-Inequality Dynamics: Methods, Estimates, and Simulations for France	Journal of the European Economic Association	A	3
2019	Capital Accumulation, Private Property, and Rising Inequality in China, 1978–2015	American Economic Review	S	3
2018	Income inequality in France, 1900–2014: Evidence from Distributional National Accounts (DINA)	Journal of Public Economics	A	3
2018	Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	3
2017	Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world	American Economic Review	S	5
2017	On the Share of Inheritance in Aggregate Wealth: Europe and the USA, 1900–2010	Economica	C	3
2015	About Capital in the Twenty-First Century	American Economic Review	S	1
2014	Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy	A	3
2014	Inherited vs self-made wealth: Theory & evidence from a rentier society (Paris 1872–1927)	Explorations in Economic History	B	3
2014	Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700–2010	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	2
2011	On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance: France 1820--2050	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	1
2009	Income Inequality and Progressive Income Taxation in China and India, 1986-2015	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics	A	2
2006	Wealth Concentration in a Developing Economy: Paris and France, 1807–1994	American Economic Review	S	3
2006	The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective	American Economic Review	S	2
2005	Top Indian Incomes, 1922-2000	World Bank Economic Review	B	2
2003	Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	2
2003	Income Inequality in France, 1901-1998	Journal of Political Economy	S	1
2000	Voting as Communicating	Review of Economic Studies	S	1
1999	Dualism and Macroeconomic Volatility	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	3
1999	The information-aggregation approach to political institutions	European Economic Review	B	1
1999	Can fiscal redistribution undo skill-biased technical change?: Evidence from the French experience	European Economic Review	B	1
1998	Self-fulfilling beliefs about social status	Journal of Public Economics	A	1
1997	The Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution and the Interest Rate with Credit Rationing	Review of Economic Studies	S	1
1996	A federal voting mechanism to solve the fiscal-externality problem	European Economic Review	B	1
1995	Social Mobility and Redistributive Politics	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	1
1994	Existence of fair allocations in economies with production	Journal of Public Economics	A	1
1993	Implementation of First-Best Allocations via Generalized Tax Schedules	Journal of Economic Theory	A	1