A Solid Middle Class Is Not Good for the Economy

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I make a solid middle class uno important for the economy and so democracy. I igre it's to perpetuation oter time of iniquitiesand it's not good for democracy. And i think as economists we should be careful about what the causal mechanism is. It matters a lot. Butte youn ant mad books e o asi talk a lot with entra prenerven. Only saythe bet.

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.