Are You Optimistic or Pessimistic About the Future?

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Yi: I am actually a lot more optimistic than what some people seem to believe. We've never been as rich, yo, know, in terms of netwells,. than we are to day in deve countries. So i think we can we can do better? Yi: If we have a pragmatiac approach to to the financial transparency and taxes, and we can make a progress. econ talk is part of the library of economics and liberty on monday mornings at 9am GMT.

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.