A French Eco**mics Book Is Dominating Amazon Right **w
 

A French Eco**mics Book Is Dominating Amazon Right **w
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The hottest book on Amazon 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, has generated ** shortage of book sales.

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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 for The New York Review of Books. For those seeking a TL;DR version,*Vox's Matt Yglesias assembled a quality explainer on the book and its arguments. Read more...

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