New in Books: ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’

The most curiousblockbuster book of 2014 has easily been Thomas Piketty’sCapital in the Twenty-First Century. Piketty’s a French economist who wrote a nearly 700-page book about the Western world’s history (and probablenear-future) of economic inequality.

My review is atPopMatters:

[Piketty]thinks it’s actually a good thing that economists aren’t treated with as much respect in France as they are in the United States. This refreshing humility doesn’t keep the book from over-relying on a few poi...