"I want to create a fair society no relationship to the origin. Thing my book is written for the"

Thomas Piketty Professor 31 days Paris School of Economics that "21 century of capital" has become a hot topic in the country, opened the lecture to students at the University of Tokyo. If you do not a rich student in his difficult it was status quo problems vision to go to top universities questions as "lucky enough what to do we have received a good education." "I want to create a fair society no relationship to the origin. My book that's what was written for," he answered, such as.
Thomas Piketty Professor of Paris School of Economics to lecture at the University of Tokyo (31 pm, Tokyo Hongo)
He in his book, has been proposed as to impose a tax in accordance with the assets in the world common to people with deposits and shares, the net assets of such real estate. And spoke with a lecture "It remains the one hand the rate of return on capital in the economic growth weakens high", and complained that the return to the disparity society, such as the 19th century If you do not correct the wealth concentration.
The "inheritance tax to the question of the" To disparities than likely to be accepted towards the inheritance tax is "not taxed only on part of the assets. (In stocks and real estate held impose taxes) and the direction of progressive capital taxation but it said it "can avoid the concentration of wealth.
The same day, Piketi professor was a press conference at the Japan National Press Club. Once asked about Abenomics to talk as "we need tax reform to benefit the young people", and he said that we should reduce the tax in low-income young. Mentioned the negative perception that the "do not rise to good results for Japan's growth" for the consumption tax increase. It might be a new economic system that era needed worldwide.




『21世紀の資本』が各国で話題になっているパリ経済学校のトマ・ピケティ教授が31日、東大で学生らに講義を開いた。お金持ちでないと一流大学に行きにくい現状を問題視した同氏に学生は「幸運にも良い教育を受けている我々は何をすべきか」と質問。「出自に関係ない公平な社会をつくってほしい。私の本はそのために書かれたものだ」などと答えた。
東大で講義するパリ経済学校のトマ・ピケティ教授（31日午後、東京・本郷）
　同氏は著書の中で、預金や株式、不動産などの純資産を持つ人に資産額に応じた税金を世界共通で課すよう提言している。講義では「経済成長が鈍る一方で資本収益率は高いままだ」と語り、富の集中を是正しないと19世紀のような格差社会に戻ると訴えた。
　「格差是正には相続税の方が受け入れられやすいのでは」との質問には「相続税は一部の資産にしか課税されない。（保有する株や不動産に税金を課す）累進資本課税の方が富の集中を回避できる」と語った。
　同日、ピケティ教授は日本記者クラブでも記者会見した。アベノミクスについて問われると「若者に利する税制改革が必要だ」と語り、若い中低所得層の税を引き下げるべきだと語った。消費増税については「日本の成長に対して良い結果を生んでいない」と否定的な見方を述べた。世界的に新しい経済体制が必要な時代なのかもしれませんね。