Any reader of this site has likely heard about the book currently setting the world of economics aflame.
"Capital in the Twenty-First Century" was written by a French economist named Thomas Piketty. It is on the New York Times best-seller list and is currently sold out, with its publisher scrambling to print more copies.
If you haven't heard of Piketty, he is director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and associate chairman at the Paris School of Economics, where he specializes in the study of economic inequality.