You can’t fool Thomas Piketty -- he knows you haven’t cracked open his 700-page economics tome.
But that hasn’t stopped pundits and reviewers from sharing their sweeping opinions about his top-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
“The problem with all the publicity is you have people who write about the book who apparently have not opened it,” Piketty said during a Friday appearance on Bloomberg TV’s “Countdown.” “That’s fine with me, the objective was to promote debate.”...
Piketty has published lengthy responses debunking the FT’s supposed debunking. On Friday, he brushed off Giles’ continued criticism.The Huffington Post
“They have made a fool of themselves,” he told Bloomberg’s Anna Edwards and Mark Barton.
Thomas Piketty: A Lot Of My Critics Haven't Even Read The Book
Alexander C. Kaufman
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