Avner Offer - Historians reflect on Picketty

Published: March 28, 2015, 11:38 a.m.

b'Economic History Society annual conference, on 28 March 2015. The panel discussed Thomas Piketty\\u2019s book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Chaired by Professor Sir Rick Trainor, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, the panel comprised Professor Martin Daunton, Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge, Avner Offer, Chichele Professor of Economic History at Oxford, Jim Tomlinson, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, and Dr Keith Tribe, independent scholar.'