“Piketty findings undercut by errors,” the Financial Times headline screamed. And the story itself, by Chris Giles, who did the investigation, was quick to draw an odious comparison: The data ...

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Last week, when Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the 21st Century was racing to the top of The New York Times' bestseller list, I set out to read the conservative criticisms of the economist behind ...

Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is a full nod to Marx acknowledged by the title itself. For academic purposes, and maybe more than that, Piketty is not a full-blown Marxist, ...

Dubbed the “rock-star economist,” France’s Thomas Piketty has topped the Amazon.com bestseller list with the surprise blockbuster book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” which argues that because ...

In "Capital," French economist Thomas Piketty explores how wealth and the income derived from it magnifies the problems of inequality. Gwen Ifill gets debate on his data and conclusions from Heather ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Thomas Piketty is having another moment in the blogosphere. As you may remember, he’s ...

Financial Times economics editor Chris Giles says French economist Thomas Piketty's best-selling "Capitalism in the 21st Century," about rising inequality in the West, contains serious errors that ...

I’ll admit that I haven’t read the 700 pages of Thomas Piketty’s acclaimed (by all the usual suspects) “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” But then neither have most of the people who are ...