Piketty and the Inequality Debate

An excellent piece from The Guardian:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/22/we-need-a-wealth-tax-thomas-piketty-2014s-most-influential-thinker

Important Reviews of Capital in the 21^st Century

Branko Milanovic’s review:

http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/52384/1/MPRA_paper_52384.pdf

Related: Milanovic, Branko. 2014. "The Return of "Patrimonial Capitalism": A Review of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century." Journal of Economic Literature, 52(2): 519-34.

Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality by Charles I. Jones

http://www.nber.org/papers/w20742

Robert Solow’s review:

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117429/capital-twenty-first-century-thomas-piketty-reviewed

Paul Krugman’s highly favorable review: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-piketty-new-gilded-age/

Debraj Ray’s critique:

http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/debraj/Papers/Piketty.pdf

Deirdre McCloskey’s critique:
http://ejpe.org/pdf/7-2-art-4.pdf

Update:

AEA meeting debate on Piketty’s book:

http://events.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/b6d6725ea1df49c896fc82465f732e9b1d