arkyI got bored with proselytizing /Brief History of Equality/ to people who don't enjoy reading economic-history textbooks, and decided I should give both /Capitalism in the 21st C./ and Capitalism and Ideology/ a critical second reading. I've read each of them exactly once, but I was unusually focused and interested for both readings. However, I read them in all newbie-fanboy mode, as someone who had just found out for the first time about Piketty's lifework.
And by "critical second reading" I don't mean an important second reading, I mean that this time I'm going to be searching for flaws in the argument. My earlier study as a younger man of von Mises and Hayek ought to have prepared me for this role, after all, no? They bamboozled me the first time, so this time I'd like to make sure Piketty isn't just bamboozling me again the way I've been bamboozled before.