{"id":6428,"date":"2014-09-21T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-is-thomas-pikettys-700-page-book-a-bestseller\/"},"modified":"2016-03-01T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T05:25:10","slug":"why-is-thomas-pikettys-700-page-book-a-bestseller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-is-thomas-pikettys-700-page-book-a-bestseller\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Thomas Piketty's 700-page book a bestseller?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThomas Piketty is a French economist whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has swept American discourse. Four experts \u2013 Brad DeLong, Tyler Cowen, Stephanie Kelton and Emanuel Derman \u2013 take on why that isThere\u2019s been a bizarre phenomenon this year: a young, little-known French economist has written a 700-page tome about economic inequality \u2013 dense with data, historical examples from France, and a few literary references to Jane Austen. That\u2019s not the strange part. This is: it\u2019s a bestseller. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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