Picking Piketty Apart: The Superstar French Economist Tortures the Data to Fit His Narrative

The Freeman
Mar. 31, 2015

Thomas Piketty, the “rock star” French economist who dominated the news in late 2014, is trying to backpedal on the claims that made him famous. While he sticks with his core arguments about the nature of inequality, his new article in the American Economic Review has been widely interpreted as a tempering of the bolder claims in his bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century about the causes and consequences of economic inequality.

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