Just about every man and woman and their dogs have reviewed French economist Thomas Piketty’s magnum opus, Capital in the 21st century. Most reviews are laudatory (but not all) and most reviews are superficial (but not all). «A watershed in economic thinking» Branko Milanovic; «could change the way we think about the past two centuries of history» The Economist; «a defining issue of our era» John Cassidy, New Yorker and so on.
I am not going to review Piketty’s book here as I have been asked by the Historical Materialism journal to do a review and I don’t want to steal the thunder from that. But as that won’t be published for some time, I can’t resist posing a few questions for everybody to consider if they plan to read the 677 pages plus a myriad of statistics and charts offered by Piketty.
The book’s title immediately suggests…
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