Much political debate in recent years, especially since the publication of Thomas Piketty‘s highly publicized book on capital, has focused on the ills associated with income inequality. Thomas Sowell‘s latest…
Thomas Donlan of Barron’s devotes his latest editorial commentary to key arguments from the latest Nobel Prize-winning economist, Angus Deaton. Sit down at your computer and buy his 2013 book…
The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek discusses a new book aimed at the Thomas Piketty crowd, Gabriel Zucman’s The Hidden Wealth of Nations. With his book, “The Hidden Wealth of…
Tufts professor Amar Bhide devotes a Barron’s column to debunking Thomas Piketty‘s arguments about the impact of profits on inequality. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty announced an…
In his big attack on capitalism, Piketty doesn’t just rely on dubious numbers and downright awful theory, he also relies on works of literature that he thinks help to prove…
Gene Epstein‘s latest “Economic Beat” column in Barron’s examines the response to Thomas Piketty’s highly publicized tome on capitalism. According to The Wall Street Journal, the multitudes who splurged $21.99…
Professor George Reisman, one of two surviving students of Ludwig von Mises (the other is Israel Kirzner) has written a long, devastating critique of Thomas Piketty’s much-hyped book Capital in…
George Mason University economist Donald Boudreaux offers Barron’s readers a less-than-glowing review of Thomas Piketty’s book on capital and income inequality. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century might soon…
Robert Murphy devotes a column posted at the Rare website to documenting flaws in French economist Thomas Piketty’s well-publicized arguments about income inequality. The most obvious problem with Piketty’s book…
The crux of Piketty’s argument is that the rich will just keep getting richer and richer than regular folks, but as AEI’s Andrew Biggs points out here, that assumes that…
He calls it “Piketty’s Garden of Envy” in this review. Right — all that the book does is to provide a smokescreen of intellectual cover for the large and growing percentage…
Economics professor Richard Ebeling examines the economics and philosophy of Thomas Piketty’s much-discussed new book in this essay. I like this paragraph in particular: “Modern egalitarians like Piketty are locked…