Chris Hubbs's review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Chris Hubbs reviewed Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, 2013, Éditions du Seuil, Harvard University Press)

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about …

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4 stars

I'm no economist, but to my ears Piketty makes a reasonable, readable, and engaging case for a new sort of tax to help close the growing disparity between the world's richest and poorest peoples.

Piketty recognizes that this sort of global tax is a utopia, but fails to acknowledge the sad truth that as long as the richest have a disproportionately loud voice in political decisions, nothing will ever change.