Why is Thomas Piketty's 700-page book a bestseller?There’s been a bizarre phenomenon this year: a young, little-known French economist has written a 700-page tome about economic inequality – dense with data, historical examples from France, and a few literary references to Jane Austen. That’s not the strange part. This is: it’s a bestseller. Somehow, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty has become a conversation piece among well-r
