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'Capital in the Twenty-First Century': Film Review

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Released in 2013 (and translated into English the following year), Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century did the impossible —turn an economics text into a massive best-seller —in part because it was accessible to nonscholars, gathering the data and principles that confirmed what many readers instinctively knew: Fewer and fewer people controlled more and more of the world's assets, and this was a bad thing.

Given the extent to which it has informed public debates about economic inequality, one wonders what group of moviegoers will have need of an adaptation like Justin Pemberton's film of the same name —a slick and engaging film that speeds through the history of modern capitalism with very few pauses for reflection..

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