This is a transcript of a recorded interview carried out with Thomas Piketty by Mike Savage on July 8 th at the Paris School of Economics. The transcript has been lightly edited to improve the flow of text and remove hesitations but is otherwise unchanged from the original conversation. I would like to thank Georgia Nichols for her assistance with editing. Extracts from this transcript are also being published by the Theory, Culture and Society blog.
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