Piketty
BJP questions Piketty's name in group analysing caste data in Telangana
The BJP on Saturday criticised the Telangana government for including French economist Thomas Piketty in an expert group to analyse the state's caste survey, as it questioned the involvement of a foreigner in studying "sensitive" social data. BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi asked why the state's Congress government needed a foreign expert and if there was any dearth of capable people in India. He noted that many Indians were occupying important positions globally, slamming the state government for including a foreigner in the 11-member group headed by a retired Supreme Court judge. The Rajya Sabha member said the model proposed by Piketty, who has extensively studied wealth inequality, had drawn heavy criticism abroad and noted that his tax recommendations could inflict a lot of harm on the salaried and middle class. He alleged that the Congress had stood with foreign forces to echo their criticism of the Indian economy and various other issues, and asked the main ...
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French economist Thomas Piketty for emulation of 20th-century wealth tax
India abolished wealth tax in 2015, holding that it had become burdensome to the administration without substantial collections
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Piketty and the middle income trap
That's the rich country inequality problem. But emerging and developing economies such as India are, by definition, not at steady state
