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Friday, June 06, 2014

The French Sensation: Income Inequality in 700 Pages and a Hundred Graphs

The French Sensation: Income Inequality in 700 Pages and a Hundred Graphs
Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there a reason he’s getting the rock star treatment? Is it the symptoms that resonate so β€” our drift into oligarchy β€” or the cure β€” a progressive tax on wealth?

 



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