Any reader of this site has likely heard about the book currently setting the world of economics aflame.

¡°Capital in the Twenty-First Century¡± was written by a French economist named Thomas Piketty. It is on the New York Times best-seller list and is currently sold out, with its publisher scrambling to print more copies.

If you haven¡¯t heard of Piketty, he is director of studies at the ?cole des hautes ¨¦tudes en sciences sociales and associate chairman at the Paris School of Economics, where he specializes in the study of economic inequality.