![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Given the sensational reception of the not-so-easily digested 800-page study that spans back to the eighteenth century, the question as to where the hype around Piketty’s book comes from deserves to be asked. Thus, a small elite becomes simultaneously richer and richer and more and more powerful. The ‘rock star economist’s’ ( Financial Times) underlying thesis: inequality under capitalism has reached dramatic proportions in the last few decades and continues to grow-and not by coincidence. ![]() Piketty has been described as a new Karl Marx and placed in the same league as the economist John Maynard Keynes. It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm-as well as intense criticism-in a way no other recent economic or sociological work has. US Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade”. ![]()
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