An Economist Becomes a Star

NYTIMES profile of the French Economist Thomas Piketty

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/business/international/taking-on-adam-smith-and-karl-marx.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/books/thomas-piketty-tours-us-for-his-new-book.html

See here for previous post on his book:

http://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2014/04/capital-and-new-gilded-age.html

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Kemal Dervis considers the future of economic progress:
http://www.project-syndicate.org/print/kemal-dervi--homes-in-on-the-key-questions-surrounding-the-nature-and-measurement-of-contemporary-growth