Books by Thomas Piketty
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review 1: This is an amazing and disturbing book. I have to confess that the first two chapters were very hard for me to understand because I don't have the background in macroeconomics he was building on. However, his central thesis that wealth has accumulated more in the upper 10% at cos...
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review 1: A profoundly amazing tome that is a hallmark work not just in economic scholarship but also about the conveyance of rigorous ideas backed up by data. A lot of scientific writings try to justifiably dumb down the source material to be more approachable but here the author chooses ...
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review 1: What I liked most about the book was probably what a lot of readers disliked: Piketty presents reams and reams of empirical data, from multiple countries, going back three hundred years. He is the rare economist that grounds his work in that mass of empirical data, rather than th...
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review 1: Cinque pregi (anzi, sei) e tre difetti. Fatte le somme, decisamente un buon saggio. Non è piaciuto a molti accademici, marxisti ortodossi e liberali duri e puri. Quindi, forse è un ottimo saggio.1) Rimette la questione della diseguaglianza dove deve stare: al centro della politic...
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review 1: What a book to end the year on. What I'm really thinking about after wrapping up this book is how much I love the technology I read it on. I mostly read this book on kindle, primarily my kindle or sometimes Cait's kindle, because it is the nice backlit version. This was also the ...