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.

Thomas Piketty's monumental book seeks to understand the “laws of motion” of capitalism and puts labor and capital squarely back in economics.

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows how much today's inequality has in common with what America, France and Britain saw a century ago.

The French economist answered this and other questions about Capital in the Twenty-First Century at a forum last week. Watch video of the event here.

What’s wrong with the way restaurant workers are treated and compensated? Hundreds of people with experience in the food industry wrote to Bill with their thoughts.

Earlier this month, workers and state legislators picketed McDonald's to press Albany to raise the state minimum wage.

Women are much more likely to have minimum-wage jobs than men and female-headed households are more likely to be poor.

Individuals taxpayers will give the IRS its biggest boost on April 18, so we should know what the government is doing with our money (but that doesn't mean we have to like it).