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‘Mathiness’ is use of data to give an appearance of scientific content to ideological preconceptions
Opposition continues game of teaming academics with MPs in bid to change narrative
Economist leads criticism of decision to hire former BNP Paribas banker to replace Christian Noyer
In the back room of a Paris deli, France’s ‘rock-star’ economist talks about his fears of eurozone ‘catastrophe’, what spurred his interest in inequality and how much tax he pays
Rich getting richer is bad for growth, claims IMF research
Economist to spend 4 days a year teaching at London university’s new institute
The marketing expert known to generations of students turns his gaze to capitalism’s flaws
Tech group wades into debate over rising income inequality
Graduate student, 26, disproves return of the rentier
Nobel prizewinner Robert Shiller on where to put your money when everything looks expensive
Book clubs are proliferating. Five million American adults are estimated to be in one
French author believes it is not up to governments to ‘decide who is honourable’
An old problem given new exposure by an improbable academic blockbuster, writes Alan Beattie
This injustice is different from the concerns of Occupy Wall Street or Piketty’s readers
A round-up of the titles to remember
If capital is indeed back as Piketty says, it is in a different way
‘Capital in the 21st century’ has provoked a fierce debate over inequality
Bestseller by Thomas Piketty is one of six books in running for award
Controversy and battles of ideas set the tenor for the longlist
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