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Book Review of Piketty

So you can mentally prepare yourself, here is a short (about 1,000 words) review of Piketty. Next week I’ll publish a much longer review with quotations from the book. The good thing about this “Rare” review is that if you get bored, you can click on a slideshow of Victoria’s Secret models. The best part: […]

Piketty Hits Back

I want to move on with my life, but I’m apparently one of the few people who actually read Chris Giles’ FT critique of Piketty, and so I can explain just how ludicrous his counterattack in Bloomberg is. My conclusion: There are many oddities in Piketty’s work. We know for a fact that he has […]

Come to a “Night of Clarity” in Nashville on August 15

On August 15 my business partner Carlos Lara and I will have another “Night of Clarity” event in downtown Nashville. For those who are curious what this is, here is the memorial video from last year: The lineup of speakers this year is the same, except the headliner is David Stockman rather than Ron Paul. […]

Potpourri

==> I tackle some objections to anarcho-capitalism in this “Lions of Liberty” podcast. ==> Peter Klein provides a lengthy quotation from Rothbard on Gabriel Kolko (who recently died). ==> Hilarious Bryan Caplan response to the “world’s first and only stand-up economist” Yoram Bauman. (Bauman’s statements about climate change are as accurate as his self-billing.) ==> […]

Piketty vs. Giles

Here is my initial reaction to the affair. Let me emphasize my main position: I am not an expert on the various estimates of wealth concentration. So I don’t know how to referee on the specific allegations. However, let us not forget that Piketty clearly put in bogus information on both the minimum wage and […]

Don’t Trust Joe Romm to Interpret IPCC Tables

That’s the moral in my latest IER post. (Thanks to Josiah Neeley who helped me find some of the stuff in the IPCC reports.) Here’s the conclusion, but if this is “your thing” I really encourage you to follow the link: Romm and his interventionist allies can’t have it both ways. The IPCC is reporting […]

Shocking Quotes from Piketty

You know how some of you have been saying, “What the heck Murphy, why do you keep talking about this Piketty book? So what if it was #1 on Amazon, and all the progressives are giddy about it? He just wants to raise tax rates right?” Uh, no. Check out my latest Mises Canada post. […]