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What Piketty Forgot: The Ecological Inequality That Threatens Us With Extinction 

http://www.occupy.com/article/what-piketty-forgot-ecological-inequality-threatens-us-extinction 

By now, it’s no secret that French economist Thomas Piketty is one of the world’s leading experts on inequality. His exhaustive, improbably popular opus of economic history — the 700-page "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" — sat atop the New York Times bestseller list for weeks. Some have called it the most important study of inequality in over 50 years.

Piketty is hardly the first scholar to tackle the linkage of capitalism with inequality. What sets him apart is his relentlessly empirical approach to the subject and his access to never before used data — tax and estate records — that elegantly demonstrates the growing trends of income and wealth inequality. The database he has compiled spans 300 years in 20 different countries...