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thundara  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why is Piketty's book a bestseller?

    I'm perhaps being cynical, but I would have to imagine that for most books the number read:number sold is a relatively small ratio, but for Capital the ratio is dismally so.

I remember an old teacher saying a similar thing about Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (As an example of why scientists need to step up their communications skills)