#  2018 Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality: Thomas Piketty 

 



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 **March 30, 2018** 

 04:00PM - 05:15PM EDT 

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 **JFK Jr. Forum**  



 

 



 

   ![Thomas Piketty in the JFK Jr Forum](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/pikettybyjohnwerner.jpg?itok=iPfDBQca) 

 

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###### Photo by John Werner

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THE JAMES M. AND CATHLEEN D. STONE LECTURE IN ECONOMIC INEQUALITY 2018  


## Rising Inequality

### and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict

  
**Thomas Piketty**  
*L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Paris School of Economics. Author of the international best-seller, 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century.'*

**Douglas W. Elmendorf** (Moderator)  
*Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School*  
  
Friday, March 30 2018  
in the JFK Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School

[Watch Thomas Piketty in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum as he explores the relation between rising inequality and the changing structures of political conflict, from class-based to identity-based. He presents selected findings from the ](https://wir2018.wid.world/)[World Inequality Report 2018 ](http://wir2018.wid.world/)and from his latest research on changing cleavage structures: 'Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right.

[**Get the paper**](http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf)  
[**View the slides**](http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018PoliticalConflict.pdf)  
[**Watch the video**](https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/thomas-piketty)

Listen to Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast interview with Thomas Piketty (audio + transcript)

[**HKS PolicyCast**](https://hkspolicycast.org/piketty-explains-why-capitals-analysis-of-wealth-inequality-is-far-from-apocalyptic-eeaec28ac40f)

[**Event poster**](/file_url/2405)

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*Photos by ©2018 by Martha Stewart*

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