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May 31, 2014

Capitalism and law in the 21st century

The mere cover is audacious. Thomas Piketty's "Capital," appears in red letters, with the rest of the title - "in the Twenty-First Century" - in smaller point below, evoking memories of a college syllabus.

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The mere cover is audacious. Thomas Piketty's "Capital," appears in austere red letters, with the rest of the title - "in the Twenty-First Century" - italicized in smaller point below, evoking memories of a college syllabus for a course on modern political philosophy, a study otherwise counterweighted in the dawn of the industrial revolution with Marx's "Das Kapital."

Still, the French economist delivers. This is not to say that his conclusions, much less policy prescripti...

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