Thursday, February 12, 2015

Brad DeLong — The Three Must-Reads You Need to Understand Thomas Piketty and His “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”

I have a new list of three articles that bring you up to speed on the current state of the process of assessing and assimilating Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century:
WCEG — The Equitablog
The Three Must-Reads You Need to Understand Thomas Piketty and His “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
Brad DeLong
Piketty: "My book is primarily about the history of the distribution of income and wealth…. My book is probably best described as an analytical historical narrative based upon this new body of evidence. In this way, I hope I can contribute to placing the study of distribution and of the long-run back at the center of economic thinking…."

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