Piketty shines a light through capital's fog
13 September 2015 - 02:00
Thomas Piketty will visit South Africa this month. His visit lays down an awkward deadline for the thousands of you who have bought his 700-page magnum opus. And it poses an interesting question: what does this global history of wealth and inequality, focused on France, have to say to South Africans, citizens of the country routinely described as the most unequal in the world? The short answer: a great deal.
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