或许这本书的成功来源于时代精神。即使全球金融危机刚结束时有人能够整理出同样的观点和论据,我们也很难相信同样的观点在5到10年前会有今天这样的影响力。很长一段时间以来,不平等状况愈演愈烈引发的担忧一直在美国积聚。最近无论我去哪里、见哪些人都会听到同样的问题:你怎么看待托马斯·皮凯蒂(Thomas Piketty,法国著名经济学家,其于去年出版的著作《资本在二十一世纪》在欧美热销至今,一时洛阳纸贵,形成“皮凯蒂现象”)?这个问题其实包含两层意思:你怎么看待皮凯蒂的著作,你对皮凯蒂现象有何见解? Perhaps the success of this book comes from the spirit of the times. Even if one can sort out the same arguments and arguments just after the global financial crisis, it is hard to believe that the same view will have such an impact today 5 to 10 years ago. Concerns over the growing inequality have been gathering in the United States for a long time. Recently, no matter where I go, see who will hear the same question: What do you think of Thomas Piketty (a famous French economist whose book Capital in the 21st Century was published in Europe and the United States Hot so far, and sometimes Luoyang expensive paper, the formation of “Pikiti phenomenon ”)? This question actually contains two meanings: What do you think of Picatty’s book, what do you think about the Picathe phenomenon?