Thomas Piketty is associated with mind-numbing data analysis. Yet in normal times the best-selling French economist is also a cinema lover, often going twice a week. “It’s one of the good things of being in Paris. You just walk and there are movie theatres everywhere,” the 49-year old says. His Capital in the Twenty-First Century was once cruelly labelled the most unread bestseller of all time — on the basis that ebook readers tended to highlight only passages towards the beginning of the text.
托馬斯?皮凱蒂(Thomas Piketty)一般被人與乏味的數(shù)據(jù)分析聯(lián)系在一起。然而在平時，這位曾經(jīng)撰寫暢銷書的法國經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家也是一名電影愛好者，經(jīng)常一周去看兩次電影。現(xiàn)年49歲的皮凱蒂表示：“這是住在巴黎的好處之一。你只要走一走，就準(zhǔn)能發(fā)現(xiàn)電影院。”他的《21世紀(jì)資本論》(Capital in the Twenty-First Century)曾被不客氣地說成是史上最沒人愛看的暢銷書——理由是電子書閱讀器往往只突出該書開頭的部分段落。