i was surprised, after reading your book, to go back and read his 19 55 article. Cusnets himself seem be pretty ong agnostical. And im sorry if i seem excessively critical with cusnett. I think tho problem wee ma mustes follow wels. The cold war ea, which, you know, everybody wanted to believe in, appens for capitalism, an andan inequality dynamics. But the problem, as you say, were ruins for the world.
Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century talks to Econtalk host Russ Roberts about the book. The conversation covers some of the key empirical findings of the book along with a discussion of their significance.