Writing in The New Yorker in March, John Cassidy praised Piketty for writing 'a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore.' In the course of a few weeks 'Capital' became the most talked-about book in London and New York. Now, even before the book's English translation appeared in paperback, we have 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' in both hardcover and paperback formats.Įven before Harvard University Press published the book's English edition in April 2014, American and British readers were already debating its main arguments. In the past we would have to wait for years before big books like 'Capital' reached our shores. That İş Bankası Yayınları is publishing Hande Koçak's Turkish translation of the book this week is cause for celebration. Piketty argued that regulated markets was somewhat inevitable in today's world if people truly wanted to deal with the ever growing problem of economic inequality. For those who had long pontificated about state intervention in the economic field being the worst of all possible evils and the simple formula of merely succumbing to liberal capitalism to have less inequality and more prosperity, it was a difficult read. Piketty's attack on the fundamental promises of liberal capitalism rubbed the neoliberal ideologues and some publications the wrong way. Written by an expert economist, the book's main argument about growing inequality was nothing less than a call for arms to reform capitalism. When it was first published in France last year, Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' became an unexpected bestseller.

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