The Piketty Thesis: Population Stagnation and the Politics of Inequality
Required:
Piketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press), pp. 72-84, 146-54, 164-71, 385-411
Summers, L. 2014. ‘The Inequality Puzzle’, Democracy, Issue #33 (Summer)
Recommended:
Piketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press)
Critics
Smith, N. 2015. ‘Piketty’s Three Big Mistakes,’ (interview with Matt Rognlie), March 27, Bloomberg.
Goodhart, C., Pratyancha Pardeshi, Manoj Pradhan. 2015. ‘Workers vs pensioners: the battle of our time,’ Prospect, November 12
Evans-Pritchard, A. 2015. ‘Deflation Supercycle is over as world runs out of workers,’ Telegraph, 24 September
Rognlie, M. 2014. ‘A note on Piketty and diminishing returns to capital,’ esp. pp 1-3, 16-18, 23 plus figures at the end
Capital in the Twenty-First Century Wikipedia entry (for summary of critiques)
Supporters
Krugman, P. 2014. ‘Is Piketty All Wrong?’, May 24, New York Times
Roberts, M. 2015. ‘Piketty update: graduate takes on a super star and comes up with a comforting conclusion’
Webcasts:
BBC Newsnight 3-minute intro to the book
Thomas Piketty TED talk Oct 6, 2014