Thomas Piketty’s bestselling and widely-cited book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, mischaracterizes inequality, according to a new paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Daron Acemoglu, of MIT, and James Robinson, of Harvard, criticized Piketty’s book, writing that Piketty’s arguments give a “misleading characterization of the true nature of inequality.”

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