In 2014, the economist Thomas Piketty warned in his bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century that patrimonial capitalism, wherein inheritance is the dominant form of wealth acquisition, was making a comeback. The book is best remembered for the formula r > g, where r is return on capital and g is economic growth.The basic idea was that we risked recreating the wealth aristocracy that prevailed throughout Europe prior to the twentieth century…
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