Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” described
by one French newspaper as a “a political and theoretical bulldozer,”
defies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that worsening inequality is
an inevitable outcome of free market capitalism.
Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics,
does not stop there. He contends that capitalism’s inherent dynamic
propels powerful forces that threaten democratic societies.
Rest of article here, from the New York Times.
