Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right:
Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict
(Evidence from France, Britain and the US, 1948-2017)
Thomas Piketty
March 2018 (revised May 2019)
Revised & extended version: Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies 1948-2020, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, vol.137(1), p.1-48 (with A. Gethin, C. Martinez-Toledano) (WID WP 2021/15) (see also the World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database)