Mises Daily
Author:
Hunter Lewis
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Keynes’s keynote book, The General Theory , is loaded with economic theory. There are only two pages of data in that book, and Keynes dismisses the scant data he cites as “improbable.” By contrast, Piketty’s new book, Capital in the Twenty-first Century , is stuffed with data. Indeed Piketty considers himself a successor to the economist whose