SUMMARY: This article discusses the problems of wealth inequality discussed in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Bruening suggests that a progressive wealth tax put into a sovereign wealth fund paying out a basic income should be a frontrunner as a solution to the problem Piketty points out.

Matt Bruenig, “On Piketty’s Capital: The Sovereign Wealth Fund Solution.PolicyShop, Demos. March 19, 2014.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Capital in the Twenty-First Century