Some rather superficial explanations of the success of Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century in the American press have claimed that Piketty is only the embodiment of a certain contemporary moment — data-driven but with a few simple big-picture claims that can be grasped easily by a tech-savvy but generally inattentive public who are obsessed with the glitz and glamour of the super-rich, and like the fact that a few more detailed figures can back up the realities of the Forbes 500 lists as well as the resurgence of political and economic elites who are themselves part of an extended network of family wealth and influence. That is far too glib an account of why this book catches something of the zeitgeist.
– Duncan Kelly, Times Literary Supplement, 27 June 2014, p.4.
her superficial explanations of the success of Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century in the American press have claimed that Piketty is only the embodiment of a certain contemporary moment — data-driven but with a few simple big-picture claims that can be grasped easily by a tech-savvy but generally inattentive public who are obsessed with the glitz and glamour of the super-rich, and like the fact that a few more detailed figures can back up the realities of the Forbes 500 lists as well as the resurgence of political and economic elites who are themselves part of an extended network of family wealth and influence. That is far too glib an account of why this book catches something of the zeitgeist.
