Thomas Piketty on democracy and capitalism

One of the observations that French economist Thomas Piketty made in his book, Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century, is that a tiny economic elite may own more of the world’s wealth than we suspect, because so much of it is hidden in “offshore” tax havens.

These 2012 broadcasts by The Real News Network illustrate his point.

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Tags: Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Economic inequality, Offshore, Tax Havens, Thomas Piketty