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To those who desperately want free markets proven inherently unjust, Piketty is a prophet. But he's a false prophet. He's pretty much a hack of a social scienti
by timtas 10y ago
To those who desperately want free markets proven inherently unjust, Piketty is a prophet. But he's a false prophet. He's pretty much a hack of a social scientist.
"We find evidence of pervasive errors of historical fact, opaque methodological choices, and the cherry-picking of sources to construct favorable patterns from ambiguous data." [1]
[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2543012 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2543012