![]() ![]() In November last year he was promoting his latest book Capital and Ideology, about which I’ve come to interview him, at the University of Toulouse when he was suddenly taken by surprise. In one respect, however, there is an element of danger about Piketty that has recently come back to haunt him. ![]() It’s not exactly throwing televisions out of hotel windows. What’s more, his preferred pastime is to bury himself in comparative assessments of incremental capital returns in late 19th-century economies. But when I meet Piketty in Paris, he looks like George Osborne’s slightly fleshier twin brother (they were born two weeks apart in 1971). With Yanis Varoufakis, the brooding, motorbike-riding former Greek finance minister, the term “rock star” might serve a shorthand descriptive purpose. ![]()
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