As pointed out here http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/05/why-didnt-pikettys-harvard-publisher-spot-the-errors-which-the-ft-has-exposed/ http://blogs

As pointed out here http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/05/why-didnt-pikettys-harvard-publisher-spot-the-errors-which-the-ft-has-exposed/ http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/05/why-didnt-p... "Perhaps the idea of one’s instincts being proving empirically correct is rather intoxicating, which partly explains the success of his book. Perhaps Piketty gave the left intelligentsia a story which (as tabloid hacks say) was “too good to check”.