Government coddling and subsidizing of investors has certainly artificially boosted the share of the top one %, which i am very opposed to. On example you give in the book as increases in the minimum wage. You turn by different policy examples. One thing onso lit this kind of institutional rods do materlaor iniquity dynami. We know that in france the unemployment rate among the least educated people has risen dramatically over that time period. It's all a matter of proportion.
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.