皮凯蒂有三副面孔:其一,在发达国家财富分配方面,他是位政治经济学家;其二,在回答如何解决他所提出的问题时,他是位主流经济学家;其三,在收集整理收入分配的数据时,他是个国民收入会计师。而他的原创性与重要性正在于后者。将“收入分配视作首要的政治问题”的皮凯蒂,其《21世纪资本论》既能激发读者的兴趣,也能激怒读者,更能引发有关如何解决收入分配问题的持续思索。 Picquet has three faces: First, he is a political economist in the distribution of wealth in developed countries; second, he is a mainstream economist in answering how to solve his problems; and third, When collecting and sorting out income distribution data, he is a national income accountant. And his originality and importance lie with the latter. Picayti, whose “income distribution is viewed as the chief political issue,” whose 21st Century Capital Theory stimulates readers’ interest as well as anger readers, can give more thought to how to solve the problem of income distribution.