Piketty's ideas already have had their maximum impact on public opinion through the media exposure. Even a formal retraction won't revert that. The media process doesn't do retractions. This kind of criticism will influence their spread in academic thought though.
Another paper claims that Piketty's data doesn't stand up to scrutiny. https://buff.ly/2Rb4jr6
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