Subject: Summer Issue Preview: Larry Summers on Thomas Piketty
From: "Michael Tomasky" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 11:29:04 -0400 (EDT)

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Dear Hunter,
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century has commandeered our intellectual
conversation in a way no other book has in recent years. You're probably thinking
everyone has weighed in on it. Wrong.
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Today, we're posting a sneak preview of our Summer issue -- our review of Piketty,
by Lawrence H. Summers [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gJazorSLvfhl3KAF7thqsCkdupbAR7f04_ampjXj16O-XWQqiocDPsITKWKdR79EO7GOkKNKeJOkBJnB_KBdxsarwbxtetl3dsMpoXc8JzNVSQF_hsS45w64FffS1D3kmsLtUS9MsJAiv7ZRj7oo2C3LNG-T3nmGPt5Xa8d2tI3RrsmOj1RxERR1biLnIdyNUT8Vyntm4_k0qbbqGqdtu6CLjWjIGyJUr1CRdwjhTcySuqFU9WiMniDmVZyfJRoBBok5kE2EPvVMBcEy6bOBk2FWhFIQYApe7SS0VsiNLCR4lzWypfzdm5XFbl1mp3pSn-99QK7oIcduh09lkTqaWSchIdusT-V4BnDtFruh_9-BdH4XgPK5cGZI266P5-6O&c=b4g59ZuuVB6NvbJR3JCFSILB4A9D41YbZK-utQl-VLZ32PPP_DLq2Q==&ch=0z2Wn15-tc7GsTz0doRVEwvh_j8vD4VB1RdNqOhgaWdGmFpiwwo4wg==].
The former Treasury secretary, one of our most distinguished economists, offers 
a comprehensive take on Piketty's arguments [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gJazorSLvfhl3KAF7thqsCkdupbAR7f04_ampjXj16O-XWQqiocDPsITKWKdR79EO7GOkKNKeJOkBJnB_KBdxsarwbxtetl3dsMpoXc8JzNVSQF_hsS45w64FffS1D3kmsLtUS9MsJAiv7ZRj7oo2C3LNG-T3nmGPt5Xa8d2tI3RrsmOj1RxERR1biLnIdyNUT8Vyntm4_k0qbbqGqdtu6CLjWjIGyJUr1CRdwjhTcySuqFU9WiMniDmVZyfJRoBBok5kE2EPvVMBcEy6bOBk2FWhFIQYApe7SS0VsiNLCR4lzWypfzdm5XFbl1mp3pSn-99QK7oIcduh09lkTqaWSchIdusT-V4BnDtFruh_9-BdH4XgPK5cGZI266P5-6O&c=b4g59ZuuVB6NvbJR3JCFSILB4A9D41YbZK-utQl-VLZ32PPP_DLq2Q==&ch=0z2Wn15-tc7GsTz0doRVEwvh_j8vD4VB1RdNqOhgaWdGmFpiwwo4wg==].
While he has "serious reservations" about Piketty's theories as a guide to understanding
inequality, he believes that his study of the phenomenon amounts to a "Nobel Prize-worthy
contribution."
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Our Summer issue hits newsstands in June. You can look forward to new essays from
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former Sen. Harris Wofford, E.J. Dionne Jr., Cristina Rodríguez,
Paul Starr, Todd Gitlin, and Rachel Kleinfeld. As always, thank you for reading.
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Sincerely,
Michael Tomasky
Editor
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001gJazorSLvfhl3KAF7thqsCkdupbAR7f04_ampjXj16O-XWQqiocDPsITKWKdR79E7moBT7COPabKQhu3cGhOvKbrr5N-A_WpMl4ZlGEVRCrwFTBkTHaIVj8o4L64yGj7fOw_ROOOYQfQjhM2jvJZzrwxiaTCqohidI0cX6uRC3RtjWSPtAq9g5JCrtGhUNXotrLmdpXLLmp31buZwxQdQrDXxcu7rCvyhQDiJlXjUNQmTod3unjU52jEuuQMtPtx1wucX-P6dfzKH-I-L-7mVon75VLXqSybCP_4ezVBKzUXidYrbAuumOS1mG12RyckeEZa3LrjW0U4L6-wmh3erg==&c=b4g59ZuuVB6NvbJR3JCFSILB4A9D41YbZK-utQl-VLZ32PPP_DLq2Q==&ch=0z2Wn15-tc7GsTz0doRVEwvh_j8vD4VB1RdNqOhgaWdGmFpiwwo4wg==]

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