Capital In the Twenty-First Century — Podcast May 5, 2014


Capital In the Twenty-First Century: A French Economist With a Lesson For Americans: Democratic Perspective’s Mike Cosentino, Gary LaMaster, and Steve Williamson take a look at Thomas Piketty’s new best-seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century. What they find is sobering: unless we make drastic changes to U.S. public policy, what many of us have feared for the future of the American economy, and American democracy, is very likely to come to pass.

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