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Thanks for getting back to me Professor, I really appreciate it, and your comments, which I will definitely take into account. It is certainly a substantial tome, and if people feel it is appropriate, I am more than happy to extend the timetable for this project to months, rather than weeks, which I appreciate may have been somewhat ambitious! Either way, I can't help but feel that this venue would be a very interesting place to have this conversation, though I should perhaps consider that there are just over 300 people on this list, many of whom may not agree! All best wishes, Jacob On 23 May 2014 17:16, "Dietrich Stauffer" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Sorry, I have only started to read Piketty's book and will not finish > reading it before your June 6 deadline. > > I dont think there was a long line of researchers who did similar work > before him, but OECD published good statistics for the last few decades > since about 2008. I learned about the growth of inequality in the big > industrial countries from the OECD study of 2011, before I learned from > Piketty and his colleagues (Saez, ...) in early 2013 about his much longer > time series for the USA income of the top 1 percent. Thus the people who > are now so much excited about Piketty's BOOK have obviously missed his > earlier work on which the book is based. > > I also recommend to distinguish between his presentation of empirical data > and his policy recommnendations. > > Dietrich Stauffer > Formerly in editorial board of Quantitative Finance, now retired. > > On Fri, 23 May 2014, Jacob Bettany wrote: > > Dear Members, >> >> Thomas Piketty's book, 'Capital in the 21st Century' has generated an >> enormous amount of coverage in recent months, fueling the debate about >> inequality and wealth, and further raising the profile of wealth >> distributions which have been studied closely by the econophysics community >> for many years. >> >> I am extremely curious about the views of the members of this list on >> this topic, and the extent to which the empirical work done by the >> community chimes with Piketty's, and would like to invite you to comment on >> the statement: >> >> "Thomas Piketty is only the latest in a long line of researchers who have >> studied wealth distributions with a view to understanding inequality." >> >> If you would like to send me your views I would be more than happy - with >> your permission - to publish them at MoneyScience and bring this community >> into the debate in a formal way. >> >> Please feel free to share your opinions with the list at >> [log in to unmask] or send them directly to me, >> [log in to unmask] If you could also state explicitly whether you >> would be willing for me to publish at MoneyScience that would also be >> helpful. >> >> If you could try to keep your responses between 500 and 1000 words, and >> get them over to me in 2 weeks time, by Friday June 6th that would be >> great, I will aim to publish in the following week, and we can possibly >> open up for a second round of responses in the weeks following. >> >> Thank you very much for your time. >> >> Jacob Bettany >> >> P.S. for reference, you may be interested in an interview with Picketty >> which can be found here: http://qz.com/200213/ten- >> questions-for-thomas-piketty-the-economist-who-exposed- >> capitalisms-fatal-flaw/ >> >>