Tomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century is the most important book you probably never read. When it was released in 2014, it caused a stir among academics, and actually made the New York Times bestseller list - something unheard of for an economic treatise.So what's the fuss about? First, it put meat on the bones of the common perception that there is gross economic inequality in the western world today. Drawing on a huge dataset, Piketty methodically...