Wednesday night, on the elevator down to the 400-seat auditorium at the City University of New York Graduate Center, one middle-aged man who looked like an economist bragged to a middle-aged couple who looked like economists, “I actually first saw Piketty back in ’01. Little place in the Village. He played ‘Patrimonial Capitalism,’ acoustic, and Emmanuel Saez came out for the encore.”
via Thomas Piketty Speech: The Economics Sensation Visits New York | New Republic.
