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>>20158
It's not bad but I'm suspicious of anyone promoting him. I've seen techbro entrepreneurs have Picketty capital book on their desk.

>>20158
I only read Capital in the 21st Century by him, and I don't think I even finished it because of the amount of repetition and redundancy.
Nonetheless, I agree he's an interesting and even useful writer. At the end of the day he's describing the gradual accumulation of wealth and growth of inequality through mainstream economics language, which might not be new to marxists but is an additional tool at the very least.
When talking to people who are not socialists about the world I often find myself referencing him, which is harder to do with marxian economists.

>>20158
>The thick of his work, 99% of it, is just compiling and analyzing heaps of data
wow sounds dumb

>>20232
Is that not exactly what empirical knowledge is?

I hate Piketty because he's french. You hate Picketty because he's liberal, redundant, etc. We are NOT the same

>>20232
A considerable amount of Marx's work was that too tho.
>>23442
Yeag