Apr 3, 2015: City Journal: Piketty’s Logic Gap
Thomas Piketty is in favor of small government, after all—but only when it doesn’t matter. Over New Year’s, the French economist and author of last year’s much-discussed Capital in the Twenty-First Century airily turned down his country’s highest award, the Legion of Honor. “I do not think it is the government’s role to decide who is honorable,” Piketty explained.
Thomas Piketty is in favor of small government, after all—but only when it doesn’t matter. Over New Year’s, the French economist and author of last year’s much-discussed Capital in the Twenty-First Century airily turned down his country’s highest award, the Legion of Honor. “I do not think it is the government’s role to decide who is honorable,” Piketty explained.
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Jan 1, 2015: CNN Money: Thomas Piketty turns down France's top honor
Economist Thomas Piketty has joined Jean-Paul Sartre and Marie Curie in turning down France's most prestigious award, the Legion d'Honneur. June 23, 2014: The Dish: The Literary Piketty
Thomas Piketty’s Capital famously uses the 19th century bourgeois novel – Austen and Balzac especially – to give a sense of what life was like in that previous age of inequality. June 7, 2014: Truthout: All Hail Piketty, But Props for Pickett, Too
What makes the new book from French economist Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, so important? June 4, 2014: Angry Bear: The Short Version–Piketty
June’s issue of Atlantic Monthly brings to the reader a series of graphs as presented by Derek Thompson’s “How the Rich Shall Inherit the Earth”. May 27, 2014: American Thinker: Anti-Piketty: It's the Great Subtraction
When you finally get to the end of Thomas Piketty's Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century you get what it's all about: We Need More Money. Of course “we” do. It's Little Shop of Horrors on the Left Bank. “Feed me!” |
May 23, 2014: Red State: Thomas Piketty’s book is declared Fake But Accurate
Last month the left was all abuzz about a new book written by a French (I am not making this up) economics professor who attacked wealth “inequality” as the root of all evil and prescribed confiscatory taxes on individual wealth to ensure everyone gets poorer except, presumably French economics professors and other plutocrats.
Last month the left was all abuzz about a new book written by a French (I am not making this up) economics professor who attacked wealth “inequality” as the root of all evil and prescribed confiscatory taxes on individual wealth to ensure everyone gets poorer except, presumably French economics professors and other plutocrats.
May 8, 2014: Forbes: Thomas Piketty's Impoverished Debate About Inequality -- And Ours
The American left has worked itself into another one of its frenzies about income inequality. This one has been triggered by a French economist named Thomas Piketty, whose new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that capitalism “automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities” in times like ours because “the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income.”
The American left has worked itself into another one of its frenzies about income inequality. This one has been triggered by a French economist named Thomas Piketty, whose new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that capitalism “automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities” in times like ours because “the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income.”
Apr 24, 2014: The Blaze: Rush Limbaugh absolutely trashes the left’s new favorite book: ‘It is absurd. It’s stupid. It’s dumb. It’s ignorant.’
Recently we’ve been writing about a book that has risen to number one on the Amazon best seller list – to much fanfare in the progressive intellectual sphere – French economist Thomas Piketty’s Marx-inspired ”Capital in the Twenty-First Century.”
Recently we’ve been writing about a book that has risen to number one on the Amazon best seller list – to much fanfare in the progressive intellectual sphere – French economist Thomas Piketty’s Marx-inspired ”Capital in the Twenty-First Century.”
