"I immediately noticed that Piketty looked at things from a left-wing perspective." Oh no! http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/06/pikitty_on_kuzn.html …
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Replying to @UnlearningEcon
@UnlearningEcon I've seen criticisms of Piketty surrounding treatment of colonialism (like@aurabogado in screenshot)pic.twitter.com/Imefurcq1E
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Replying to @chrysopoetics
@chrysopoetics@aurabogado piketty uses some popular culture to communicate points. I don't see the problem3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @UnlearningEcon
@UnlearningEcon You don't see basing assumptions about the slave trade on a fiction film? Ok. I can't help you.@chrysopoetics1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @aurabogado
@aurabogado@chrysopoetics he references empirical literature, then uses the film to communicate the point1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @UnlearningEcon
@UnlearningEcon Wait, are you arguing that Piketty actually acknowledges slave trade in his assessment of wealth inequality?@chrysopoetics1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @aurabogado
@aurabogado@chrysopoetics yep, he speaks at length about it at the end of (I think) chapter 41 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @UnlearningEcon
@UnlearningEcon "At length" in one part of one chapter? Yeah. So I can't help you. I really can't.@chrysopoetics1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @aurabogado
@aurabogado@chrysopoetics he definitely "acknowledges the slave trade". But you'd have to read the book to see that2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@UnlearningEcon To not understand slave trade as central to what is now the US is to not understand wealth inequality. @chrysopoetics
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