A specter is sweeping through capitalist societies not long after it was thought that the belief in the self-destructive nature of capitalism, as prophesied by Karl Marx and other doomsayers, had been buried along with the Berlin Wall and the remains of the Soviet Union. Who is this person whose writings have created such unease on Wall Street and other corridors of wealth in the capitalist world? It is the soft-spoken French economist Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century is raising hackles around the world.
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