Why read Piketty?

Title: Why read Piketty?

Author: Unknown

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789089648402

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Description:
In the United States, his meteoric rise has been compared to that of The Beatles and he has been jokingly called the Justin Bieber of economics. French economist Thomas Piketty divides economists, journalists and politicians into Pikettystas and anti-Pikettystas in his 1.2 kilo tome 'Capital in the 21st Century'.

In the meantime, more than 500,000 copies of 'Capital' have been sold, and in many countries, including the Netherlands, the translation has just been published. Piketty is hot on blogs, websites and Twitter, where hundreds of comments and reflections have appeared. This book offers, among other things, a selection of the most interesting and funniest articles that have been published about 'Capital' and its author. To read alongside the book. Or at least to be able to talk about it.

Writing from your own country:
Esther Bijlo (Trouw),
Hella Hueck (RTL News),
Bas Jacobs (professor of public finance and economic policy EUR),
Maarten Schinkel (NRC),
Sheila Sitalsing (freelance journalist for, among others, de Volkskrant,
Hans Stegeman (head of international research Rabobank),
Martin Visser (The Financial Telegraph)
Bas ter Weel (Deputy Director of the Central Planning Bureau)
...a contribution about Piketty especially for this book.

Robert Went, according to De Correspondent 'the best-informed economist in the Netherlands', selected the articles and wrote the introduction.