How Thomas Piketty found politics
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ByQuinn Slobodian is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy.
Ten years after publication, Capital in the Twenty-First Century remains a landmark study of inequality. Did it change anything?
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