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Thomas Piketty’s Economic Argument Applies To Art, Too (And How)

ISSUES Posted: April 23, 2014 12:17 am

“The French economist’s new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is a historic survey of wealth concentration that has quickly become a go-to text for the gathering debate on income inequality. … It is worth considering how the unprecedented amounts of money the wealthy have recently been spending on trophy artworks might be a natural extension of his argument.”

ISSUES Published: 04.21.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 04.21.14

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