摘要：Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by French economist Thomas Piketty, is a book that has come out at the right time for public intellectuals, who are taken with its story of high and growing inequality, the damage done, and the need for punitive taxes to remedy this damage. Paul Krugman (2014) declares: ‘Piketty has written a truly superb book … This is a book that will change both the way we think about society and the way we do economics.’ While there have been many other books and articles written recently about inequality (for example, Stiglitz 2013 and Wilkinson and Pickett 2009) Piketty’s book stands out in terms of the focus it has received and the sales made (See VanderMey 2014 for a detailed discussion of the success of the book).
