Thomas Piketty’s “Capital”, summarised in four paragraphsA very brief summary of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" It is the economics book that took the world by storm. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, written by the French economist Thomas Piketty, was published in French in 2013 and in English in March 2014. The English version quickly became an unlikely bestseller, and it prompted a br
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