Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Kenneth Thomas — Understanding Piketty, part 5 (conclusion)

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the first book to make a data-driven examination of economic inequality. Based on hundreds of years worth of data, it attempts to determine the long-term trends in inequality and the social and political consequences that follow from them.
In this final post, I want to highlight the most important points of the book, including a few I have not yet discussed. Beyond that, I want to consider parts of the book that are perhaps a bit less persuasive.
Middle Class Political Economist
Understanding Piketty, part 5 (conclusion)
Kenneth Thomas | Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis

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