Thomas Piketty accuses Financial Times of dishonest criticism
Author of bestselling economics book says paper is ridiculous to suggest his thesis on rising inequality is incorrect
Cherie Booth calls for quotas to help women succeed in politics and business
Barrister tells audience at the Hay festival equality would take a 'long time' if left to happen naturally
Thomas Piketty’s economic data ‘came out of thin air’
French economist's bestselling book on growing equality in the west undermined by 'inexplicable' data, says Financial Times
Amazon halts sales of some Hachette books as publishing battle escalates
Jeffery Deaver among those speaking out against Amazon's decision to stop selling certain Hachette titles
Chipotle’s literary cups: where the reader is the prisoner of Tex-Mex
James Camp: Jonathan Safran Foer has teamed up with the Mexican food chain to bring original stories to its cups and bags – but is literary devotion compatible with digestion?
Think Like a Freak by Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner – review
Freakofatigue: this latest book from the Freakonomics pair has a couple of compelling stories but is evidence of the overextension of the brand, writes David Runciman
The Piketty phenomenon: big picture economics
Editorial: When the maelstrom surrounding Capital in the Twenty-First Century dies down, its legacy may be to give economics back its sense of proportion
Len McCluskey on Capital in the Twenty-First Century: ‘manna from heaven’
The general secretary of Unite says Thomas Piketty's book gives an intellectual edge to his own view that something is wrong with our economic system, and proves that radical change is needed
Michael Lewis: ‘Wall Street has gone insane’
Flash Boys, an exposé of 'rigged' high-frequency trading, has sold 130,000 copies in its first week and is already being turned into a film. Its author, Michael Lewis, tells Emma Brockes why the story is so compelling
Sheryl Sandberg ‘does more than her fair share of childcare’
Husband of Facebook COO and author of Lean In reveals household chores are distributed between them 'more like 60/40'
Banks fiddled while Rome burned: how to predict the next global financial crisis
Larry Elliott: Amid signs of another asset bubble, and as memories of the last crisis fade, we might be seeing the beginnings of the next crash
Occupy was right: capitalism has failed the world
One of the slogans of the 2011 Occupy protests was 'capitalism isn't working'. In an epic new book, French economist Thomas Piketty explains why they're right. Andrew Hussey meets him
WH Smith to move into operating franchise stores for other retailers
Company signs deal with Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe and plans to open a least two more M&S Simply Food outlets
Flashboys: Cracking the Money Code review – Michael Lewis exposes the international money markets
A new breed of parasitic financial players has discovered a novel way of fleecing the global public many times over in the blink of an eye, writes Tim Adams
Tom Weldon: ‘Some say publishing is in trouble. They are completely wrong’
Ahead of the London Book Fair, the UK head of Penguin Random House insists his industry has coped with the digital revolution better than any other