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Seems sort of like 'inequality' is the meme of the day and all this attention is just because somebody wrote a big weighty book about it, rather than another do
by Tycho 13y ago
Seems sort of like 'inequality' is the meme of the day and all this attention is just because somebody wrote a big weighty book about it, rather than another documentary with emotional music behind all the dialogue.
- yungchin 13y agoIf we are to believe this [0], it's actually the other way around: inequality is the meme of the day precisely because he's been writing big weighty books about it for a while. [0]: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-piketty-new-gilded-age/ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-... It's a long review, but even just the first paragraphs are worth a skim - for me as a lay person they were very enlightening as to why this work makes a difference.
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