The FT Isn't Just Saying Piketty Made A Mistake -- It's Saying He Manipulated Data

Financial Times economics editor Chris Giles says French economist Thomas Piketty's best-selling "Capitalism in the 21st Century," about rising inequality in the West, contains serious errors that undermine his conclusion that wealth distributions are widening. Giles says there are clear examples of some "fat finger" mistranscriptions and compares the situation to omissions found in Reinhart's and Rogoff's data on debt levels and growth. But while the two Harvard professors' errors seemed to hav...