Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Piketty Phenomenon
Thomas Piketty is a French economist who has written a 700-page economics tome about global wealth inequality called Capital in the Twenty-First Century . But unlike most dense economics tomes, this one went to number one at Amazon and has entered the New York Times bestseller list. What gives?
Thomas Piketty is a French economist who has written a 700-page economics tome about global wealth inequality called Capital in the Twenty-First Century. But unlike most dense economics tomes, this one went to number one at Amazon and has entered the New York Times bestseller list. What gives?
The full episode
2 of 4- 0:00The Divide
- 17:34The Piketty PhenomenonYou’re reading this
- 26:54Movies
- 39:58The Final Member