#  The Inaugural Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality: Thomas Piketty 

 



##  Rising Inequality

###  and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict

   
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**homas 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](http://wir2018.wid.world/)[ Report 2018 ](http://wir2018.wid.world/)and from his latest research on changing cleavage structures: 'Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right.

 **[View slides](http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018PoliticalConflict.pdf)** | **[paper](http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf)** | **[poster](/file_url/2405)**  
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[**The Forum** ](https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/thomas-piketty) [](https://hkspolicycast.org/piketty-explains-why-capitals-analysis-of-wealth-inequality-is-far-from-apocalyptic-eeaec28ac40f)

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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)**

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####  THE INAUGURAL JAMES M. AND CATHLEEN D. STONE LECTURE ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

#####  [View slides](http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018PoliticalConflict.pdf) | [paper](http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf) | [photos](/inaugural-stone-lecture-economic-inequality-thomas-piketty#photos) | [poster ](/file_url/2405)