Thomas Piketty's bestseller, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, has sold over 130,000 copies so far in Japan.

The share of wealth held by the richest tenth of Japanese is lower than in famously egalitarian spots such as Norway and Sweden. In fact, it is the second-lowest of the 46 economies surveyed by Credit Suisse Research Institute. Yet Thomas Piketty's bestseller, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, has sold over 130,000 copies so far in Japan. Why? http://econ.st/1zKSVkU

The secure v the poor

IN THOMAS PIKETTY’S bestseller, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, Japan appears as another rich country in which wealth is becoming ever more...

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