Inequality and Extremism
Thomas Piketty calculates that the Middle East is the most economically unequal region on earth. Could this have anything to do with terrorism?? What a controversial thought!
"What Are You Talking About? Generous?": Piketty's German Interview
Thomas Piketty, the French economist and author of Capital in the 21st Century (reviewed here by A Dog), has given an searing interview about the European debt crisis to the German newspaper Die Zeit. (Hamilton Nolan has written it up here.) Unfortunately, the only English translation, an unofficial one posted to…
All Debt Is Negotiable
Now that Greece’s citizens have overwhelmingly rejected the idea of continued financial austerity, the rest of Europe—particularly Germany—must decide whether to continue to hound the broke-ass Greeks to repay their debts. And Germany’s own moral superiority is far murkier than Germans might think.
Thomas Piketty Is Such a Baller
Except for a few hedge fund guys, no one had a better 2014 than French economist Thomas Piketty, who managed the once-in-a-century trick of writing an economics book that became a best seller and made Thomas Piketty, French economist, "cool." How hard is Thomas Piketty balling right now?
Stephen Colbert Interviews "King Merde of Economics" Thomas Piketty
If you've put off reading Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century, you can dip your toes in the water with Stephen Colbert's quick primer on income inequality, generational stagnation, r is greater than g, and other economic concepts all the cool kids are talking about this summer.
Read a Book
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty. Belknap Press, 685 pp. Tastes like dry paper.
The unlikeliest publishing and economics news of the year: Thomas Piketty's new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is so popular that it is sold out on Amazon, as well as in every fucking book store in NYC. Harvard University Press has yet to master supply and demand.
