Welcome to the Piketty revolution: “Capital in the 21st Century” is a...
Anyone who’s anyone (and many more who aren’t) has written something this week about “Capital in the 21st Century,” the new treatise on income inequality by French economist Thomas Piketty. The book...
View ArticleThe ultimate guide to shutting down conservative anti-Piketty hysteria
Thomas Piketty’s wildly popular new book, “Capital in the 21st Century,” has been subject to more think pieces than the final episode of “Breaking Bad.” Progressives are celebrating the book — and its...
View ArticleThe Piketty pontiff: How Pope Francis is bringing Catholicism back to its...
Pope Francis sent conservatives into a rage on Friday when — in a comment that had shades of Thomas Piketty — he called for a global movement toward ”equitable economic and social progress,” to be...
View ArticleHow Thomas Piketty and Elizabeth Warren demolished the conventional wisdom on...
In a 2006 “Saturday Night Live” sketch, Chris Parnell sums up the conventional wisdom about credit card debt: “Did you know millions of Americans live with debt they can not control? That’s why I’ve...
View ArticleLife, liberty and the pursuit of property
It is a general rule, if not a law, of the modern business cycle that the working class is the last to gain from the boom and the first to lose from the bust. A recent report by Demos, a progressive...
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