Back at Law & Liberty, our skeptical doctor demolishes the latest book by a popular marxist economist, who is still spouting the same, tired socialist nonsense as his comrades from the red 20th century.

Never once do considerations other than increased equality enter into Professor Piketty’s mind. There would be no privacy in his world, since the transparency of all dealings, incomes, and expenditures would be absolute. His utopia is tyranny in the name of virtue, the only virtue that counts: equality of outcome.