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據分析聯繫在一起。然而在平時,這位曾經撰寫暢銷書的法國經濟學家也是一名電影愛好者,經常一週去看兩次電影。現年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,就準能發現電影院。」他的《21世紀資本論》(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。