![]() ![]() There is a sense that inequality and wealth in the United States have been widening. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.We discussed fellow economists who frustrate him, the best critiques of his book, and why he has no time for Karl Marx. He spoke with a thick French accent, and was warm and engaging, even asking me questions about my opinion of his work. When I finally did reach Piketty at his office in Paris, we talked for nearly an hour. ![]() (Harvard University Press is busy ensuring that more copies are printed.) Meanwhile, the book is sold out, and so this interviewer was forced to read an e-version. Piketty has been traveling from continent to continent promoting the book, and last week he needed a break from all the publicity before we could move forward with an interview. Scheduling a mere phone conversation with Piketty seemed harder than setting up a meeting with the Pope. In the case of Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Centuryis currently one of the best-selling books in the country, things are a little more difficult. Publishers and writers crave the publicity copies of the book are overnighted to the interviewer emails from publicists asking “what else can I do for you?” begin to pile up. When one sets out to interview the author of a 700-page book on economics (being published by a university press), it is generally smooth sailing.
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