Piketty: “We need to provide universal assets to young people and strengthen capital gains taxation.”

Thomas Piketty, professor at the Paris School of Economics. Reporter Kang Yoon-joong Professor Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, a world-renowned scholar in the study of income and asset inequality, said about measures to resolve asset inequality in Korea, “Policies that provide ‘universal capital endowment’ to young people are very important,” and “We can also consider strengthening the taxation of capital gains.”P...