Thomas Piketty: The Market and Private Property Should Be the Slaves of Democracy — Lynn Fries interviews Thomas Piketty

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LYNN FRIES: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Lynn Fries reporting from Paris. In this program, we look into the history of income and wealth from the 18th century. Who owns what and who earns what? For centuries this has been a debate without much data but that's changed with the publication of a new book. To discuss all this The Real News visited Thomas Piketty in Paris. Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and the author of this new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.  

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Thomas Piketty: The Market and Private Property Should Be the Slaves of Democracy
Lynn Fries, The Real News Network | Video Interview with Transcript