Just 186 pages in the original edition, the book had a simple thesis: poverty was more extensive and tenacious than an affluent America had assumed.
Piketty's research, which is immaculate, reaches back hundreds of years to establish a simple thesis: the American dream – and more broadly, the egalitarian promise of Western-style capitalism – does not, and maybe cannot, deliver on its promises.
A simple thesis, known as the Lockean thesis, says that one should believe a proposition A just in case one's degree of belief for A is sufficiently high ('should' takes wide scope over 'just in case').
Some blame tribalism: a pleasingly simple thesis that both seems to fit the facts, and gives outsiders an excuse for indifference and inaction.
"The Late Show" has a pretty simple thesis statement when it comes to its coverage of President Donald Trump, according to host Stephen Colbert.
Simple thesis: If a lot of smart guys like the same stock, it must be worth holding.
Although Kaiser's study is really a collection of trees rather than a picture of the forest, it does have a simple general thesis: Kennedy good, Eisenhower and Johnson bad.
Mr. Andreessen and Mr. Horowitz based their firm's strategy on a simple investment thesis: each year 15 deals account for 97 percent of all venture capital profits.
The founders, Mr. Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, of Netscape and Opsware fame, had started their firm one year earlier with a simple investment thesis: in any given year, 97 percent of venture capital returns comes from just 15 start-ups.
"My simple thesis," Mr. Lang told Consulting Engineer magazine in 1978, "is that man's total environment transcends pure air, food and water, and must also encompass employment, housing, energy, transportation and recreation".
Daron Acemoglu is co-author of the book "Why Nations Fail," the simple thesis of which is that nations thrive when they develop "inclusive" political and economic institutions and fail when those institutions become "extractive" and concentrate power and opportunity in the hands of a few.
