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04-30-2014, 12:51 AM
A French Eco**mics Book Is Dominating Amazon Right **w
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The hottest book on Amazon (http://mashable.com/category/amazon/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) right **w isn't by J.K. Rowling or Malcolm Gladwell.
It's by French eco**mist Thomas Piketty, whose book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/067443000X), has generated ** shortage of book sales.
See also: 15 Books to Add to Your 2014 Reading List (http://mashable.com/2013/12/08/15-top-books-from-2013-worth-reading-in-the-new-year/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Amazon has run out of hard copies of the book, which sits atop the ecommerce site's bestseller list.
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Piketty's work has been widely lauded*as an important study in understanding modern wealth, power and inequality. Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist, wrote a lengthy review (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-piketty-new-gilded-age/) for The New York Review of Books. For those seeking a TL;DR version,*Vox's Matt Yglesias assembled (http://www.vox.com/2014/4/8/5592198/the-short-guide-to-capital-in-the-21st-century) a quality explainer on the book and its arguments. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/29/piketty-amazon-sold-out/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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The hottest book on Amazon (http://mashable.com/category/amazon/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) right **w isn't by J.K. Rowling or Malcolm Gladwell.
It's by French eco**mist Thomas Piketty, whose book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/067443000X), has generated ** shortage of book sales.
See also: 15 Books to Add to Your 2014 Reading List (http://mashable.com/2013/12/08/15-top-books-from-2013-worth-reading-in-the-new-year/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Amazon has run out of hard copies of the book, which sits atop the ecommerce site's bestseller list.
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Piketty's work has been widely lauded*as an important study in understanding modern wealth, power and inequality. Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist, wrote a lengthy review (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-piketty-new-gilded-age/) for The New York Review of Books. For those seeking a TL;DR version,*Vox's Matt Yglesias assembled (http://www.vox.com/2014/4/8/5592198/the-short-guide-to-capital-in-the-21st-century) a quality explainer on the book and its arguments. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/29/piketty-amazon-sold-out/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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