| ID | 135555 |
| Title Proper | Anxiety in the age of inequality |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Tett, Gillian |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Until recently, it was a safe assumption that it would be impossibly hard to sell a book by an obscure left-wing French intellectual to Americans, especially a 700-page tome. No longer. This spring Thomas Piketty, a 43-year-old Paris-based economist and expert on wealth and inequality, published Capital in the Twenty-First Century in English. The book compares how wealth patterns have evolved in different countries over the past few centuries and points out that inequality has been rising almost everywhere, including in the United States. Piketty’s academic publisher initially expected to sell only a modest number of copies. But Capital shot into best-sellers lists. Sales of the book were so high that it even beat out two literary adaptations of Frozen, the hit Disney film. When Piketty appeared at literary events to discuss his work, he attracted such crowds that American media dubbed him a “rock star” economist. |
| `In' analytical Note | Foreign Policy Vol. , No.209; Nov-Dec.2014: p.64-65 |
| Journal Source | Foreign Policy 2014-12 |
| Standard Number | United States – US |