Judy and John’s summer reading list (in case you are interested) includes Thomas Pikkety’s Capital in the 21st Century.  See some links (published by Harvard University Press) related to that:

• Read interviews with Thomas Piketty from the NYT’s Economix blog, Vox, Salon, the New Republic, and Foreign Affairs
• Watch Piketty discuss the book with PBS “NewsHour,” MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes,” Bloomberg TV’s “Market Markers,” MSNBC’s “Now with Alex Wagner,” CNNMoney, and HuffPost Live
• View “Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts” at the New Yorker’s Rational Irrationality blog, “Capital in 3 Minutes” from BBC’s Newsnight, and, at Business Insider, 23 of Piketty’s charts “that will make you worried about the future”
• Watch Bill Moyers discuss the book with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman on Moyers & Company
• Read short guides to the book from Vox and Harvard Business Review
• Read profiles of Piketty from the New York Times Business section, the New York Times Sunday Styles section, and the Chronicle Review
• Listen to Piketty discuss the book with BBC World Service’s “Business Daily”, WNYC’s “Leonard Lopate Show,” NPR’s “On Point,” and KPFA’s “Against the Grain”
• Read lengthy considerations of the book from Thomas Frank at Salon, Larry Summers at Democracy, and the Guardian
• Read analyses of the frenzy surrounding the book at the New Yorker’s Rational Irrationality blog, the Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Washington Post
• Read coverage of Piketty’s book tour from the New York Times, New York Magazine, the New Yorker, the New Republic, the Guardian, and the Wall Street Journal
• In the New York Times, read about the stir Capital in the Twenty-First Century has caused among leading economists, and, in The Week, why it’s the book that “everyone is talking about”
• Follow along with the Economist’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century book club
• Read Bloomburg BusinessWeek’s take on Piketty’s “immodest proposal” for a global tax on wealth
• Listen to Piketty discuss the financial dynamics at work against social mobility on the BBC World Service’s The Forum
• Read a fortune.com post on the “fresh perspective” and “wealth of newly compiled data” with which Capital in the Twenty-First Century helps us to understand the actual workings of capitalism
• At Chicago Magazine, read about Thomas Piketty’s theories of inequality and new work on the cognitive rationalization process that happens among the well-off
• On the eve of the 2014 World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, read in the Wall Street Journal about Piketty’s theories on inequality
• Read an early take on Capital in the Twenty-First Century from The Economist
• At The Week, explore Piketty’s conclusions via the classic Disney film The Aristocats
• In the New York Times, read about Piketty’s finding (with Emmanuel Saez) that the top 10 percent of earners in 2012 took home the highest percentage of total American income ever recorded
• In the Guardian, read Piketty and Saez’s argument for substantially raising top marginal tax rates
• Plot graphs of income inequality over the past century via the World Top Incomes Database, an ongoing endeavor by Piketty, Saez, Facundo Alvaredo, and Tony Atkinson
• Download Piketty’s Technical Appendix for the book, which includes additional figures and tables, as well as Internet links to all the series, excel files, programs, formulas, primary sources and technical studies used as the bedrock of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Browse a selection of HUP works on capitalism and its discontents