South Africa: The Relevance of Thomas Piketty for South Africa - Why Inequality Should Still Be On the Political Agenda

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The reaction to Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century was to be expected - both great praise and rejection at the same time.

Most studies on inequality, certainly, in the case of South Africa have tended to focus on the middle class, the employed worker and the unemployed through household surveys.

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