![]() ![]() Why, then, has this book received such a rapturous reception from such a wide and diverse audience? It’s not E=mc2 but there is an elegant simplicity to the formula r>g that denotes the relationship at the heart of the book. ![]() This is not surprising since Capital is not an easy read while the English translation of the book (and, presumably, the French original) avoids much of the jargon and technical language that often renders academic work opaque for non-specialists, the sheer wealth of empirical information and data on display can be intimidating and difficult to follow. ![]() Indeed, according to Amazon, the majority of people who downloaded the book for their Kindle e-readers did not even make it through the first chapter. WITH a hardback edition that is almost 700 pages long and weighs more than a kilogramme, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century possesses a daunting physical presence that can perhaps partially explain why it has the dubious distinction of being a book that, despite topping multiple bestseller lists when it was published last year, has largely remained unread. ![]()
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