Piketty’s book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) has become a bestseller in the world. Two month after its publication, it had sold more than 200.000 copies, and this success will surely continue for a long time. Piketty has established a new platform to discuss political economy.
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty‐first Century. By Giovanni Arrighi. New York: Verso, 2007. Pp. xiii+418. $35.00.