The Power of Piketty’s ‘Capital’
A brilliant book has named the problem of our time. But will anything change?
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f you were among those who followed the reports on French economist Thomas Piketty’s US book tour in support of his university-press-published, 696-page, Marxism-tinged treatise on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century and taxed your brain trying to recall a remotely recent antecedent for the ensuing excitement, well, relax; there isn’t any.
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