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Shame on you for your appeal to authority. The question is do the statistics support Piketty's interpretation or not. Not who generated them.
by gress 12y ago
Shame on you for your appeal to authority. The question is do the statistics support Piketty's interpretation or not. Not who generated them.
- hsksn78728 12y agoThe FT is citing figures from the UK's official records. Shame on the FT for citing statistics that run counter to Piketty's own figures (which he asserted was 71%)? Wow.
- agarcia-deniz 12y agoThe point is that the FT switched from one type of data to another, as per usual truth is probably somewhere in the middle, which would probably still back up Mr Picketty's analysis. As many people have said, is the UK one of the most equal societies in the world? This seems very unlikely