The Financial Times launched a strong critique of Thomas Piketty’s influential Capital in the Twenty-First Century but this is overall a nitpicking disingenuous apology for the 1% (no surprise):
- http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/2014/05/23/data-problems-with-capital-in-the-21st-century/%5B/embed/lili%5Bembed%5Dhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/thomas-piketty-ft_n_5400214.html?1401233351
- http://www.livingwork.ca/?p=142
Punkonomics (@DearBalak) 
The best answer to the FT critique at the journalistic level is:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/26/thomas-piketty-economist-ft-attack-rising-inequality-bling
Of course, Pikettyâs data is based on research done with Tony Atkinson, one of the most respected economist in the UK, so I would rather believe my fellow academics than a trivial FT blog.
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This attack seems really rather desperate by the standards of the FT
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