Thomas Piketty is a French economist whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has swept American discourse. Four experts – Brad DeLong,Tyler Cowen, Stephanie Kelton and Emanuel Derman – consume on why that isThere’s been a weird phenomenon this year: a young, or little-known French economist has written a 700-page tome approximately economic inequality – dense with data,historical examples from France, and a few literary references to Jane Austen. That’s not the strange part. This is: it’s a bestseller. Continue reading...
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