Thomas Piketty’s Flawed Analyses of Public Debt and Executive Compensation

Originally published in The Independent Review

Capital in the Twenty First-Century suffers from erroneous assumptions about the burden of government borrowing and the rise in managerial productivity. These shortcomings reflect a larger, overarching failure in the book: its paucity of microeconomic analysis.

Capital in the Twenty First-Century suffers from erroneous assumptions about the burden of government borrowing and the rise in managerial productivity. These shortcomings reflect a larger, overarching failure in the book: its paucity of microeconomic analysis.

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