Perspectives

Proposed legislation in California would set corporate taxes according to the ratio of CEO pay to the pay of the company’s typical worker.

Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished.

Executive pay is out of control, but it pales next to what hedge fund managers claw out of the economy.

A political journalist argues that most money spent early on in political campaigns, particularly on television ads, is probably wasted.

Economists and journalists share their reactions to Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

The flaw in Thomas Piketty's book is that it is not a tour de force of theory, enabling mainstream economists to ignore its powerful message.

The Nobel prize-winning economist tells Bill that America is on the road to becoming a society controlled by those with inherited wealth, like "Gordon Gekko's son or daughter."

An heir to Alexis de Tocqueville's tradition of analytic history, economist Thomas Piketty has a message that could not be more different.

Informed by data, economist Thomas Piketty evaluates — and rejects — a number of generally accepted conclusions in economic thought.

Economist Dean Baker writes that Piketty's book is a bold attempt to pick up where Marx left off and correct what he got wrong.