The economist celebrated for putting inequality on the mainstream agenda visited the world's most unequal country.
French socialist and economist Thomas Piketty was in Johannesburg last week to deliver the 13th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture. While it's now a huge cliché to refer to him as the 'rockstar economist', there is no denying Piketty's arrival created a flurry of hype among savants and dilettantes alike - united in the fact that few of them had actually read his magnum opus Capital, pretty much like the other famous Kapital*.
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