Does Piketty’s New Blueprint Offer Hope For Sharing A Finite World’s Resources? It’s inspiring to see the World Inequality Lab researchers directly engage in the post-growth debate with a grand vision of global economic convergence. At the World Inequality Conference in June, the renowned economist Thomas Piketty and a team of 45 researchers from the World Inequality Lab unveiled the Global Justice Report. To achieve this, the bottom 50 percent of humanity need to increase their global wealth share from 2 percent to 30 percent. The Bridgetown Initiative in 2022, for example, also stresses the complementary role of global wealth taxation and international monetary reform.