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> I imagine Piketty would consider that a problem if he knew India existed. I have no idea why people keep saying this about Piketty. You know that he's writte
by selmnoo 12y ago
> I imagine Piketty would consider that a problem if he knew India existed.
I have no idea why people keep saying this about Piketty. You know that he's written on India quite a lot, both in the book and seperately where India is the sole subject of his work, e.g.: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fichiers/public/BanerjeePiketty2005.pdf http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fichiers/public/BanerjeePiketty200... as well as China: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fichiers/public/PikettyQian2009_AEJPP.pdf http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fichiers/public/PikettyQian2009_AE...
- yummyfajitas 12y agoMost of us have only read the one book, not his entire work. In the book, I recall him only saying that he has no 200 year long timeseries. If someone can hadoop a wordcount, I'll bet that the word "Balzac" appears more frequently than "China". Any book which purports to discuss inequality, yet somehow ignores the inequality between France and India, is almost comically myopic.