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He is the French economist who shot to international fame following his 2013 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which dealt with inequality in the modern world.
Now Thomas Piketty has launched a new crusade - an attempt to change the debate on mass immigration, which he describes as an economic good.
In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, the chairman of the Paris School of Economics and visiting professor at the London School of Economics told me the European Union would benefit from a major increase in the inflow of people from the rest of the world.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35982528
It may be an 'economic good' for some places but how does he intend to ensure that these migrants go where they're needed as opposed to pitching up on our doorstep where the minimum wages are higher and the benefits better? How do we prevent them adding further to the crippling demands imposed on the UK by legal net immigration running at over 1m every 3 years?
What about the numerous serious non-economic realities of rapid mass migration which we're seeing all over Europe? What social and other costs are attached to those?