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For the benefit of those who haven't tried to read Piketty, I highly encourage you to do so. I don't agree with all his proposed causes or solutions, but the data is very interesting. And I didn't find him unreadable at all, in fact highly enjoyable, if you're the kind of person who likes to read serious non-fiction.


Yeah. It's worth a go. Kudos to anyone who can get through it.

I read a fair bit of non-fiction but found that book terrible to read. It's not his fault. It's an academic book written in French that just happened to take off.

It's also clearly an important book.

There's data around that it is very often unread.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-summers-most-unread-book-is-...




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