"Picketty And His Critics." Do Liberal Policies Perpetuate Income Inequality? NYT

Piketty and his critics. "Many on the left see the popularity of Thomas Piketty's new book, 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century,' as a sign of hope, but both optimists and pessimists share a belief more telling than Piketty's success: the idea that the traditional Democratic economic agenda is dead. Piketty's book reinforces the idea that the domestic policies liberals advocate for are palliative, not curative -- that, in essence, inequality is here to stay." Thomas B. Edsall in The New York Times.