The right versus the rock star economist

Thomas Piketty's new book has put the right-wing in a flap.

Economists are usually best read as a cure for insomnia, observes Max Hastings in the Daily Mail. Not sowith the new kid on the block, theso-called rock star economistThomas Piketty, who's zoomed to the top of the Amazon best seller lists.

In Capital In The Twenty-First Century, Piketty lays bare "the wickedness" of the way the Western world manages and distributes its money. The Guardian, Hastings says, has been treating Piketty's work "with the sort of reverence it usually reserves for Tony Benn's diaries".

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